The sax star turned his back on fame to embrace free jazz. Caught on a tape machine hidden in an overcoat, newly revealed recordings show how he did it ...

This elegant contemporary reinvention of 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman pairs Marsalis’s post-bop sax with Reeves’ agile vocals, to time-stopping effect ...

Wednesday is the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Coltrane. A tenor titan born a century ago may seem like old news, but with his timeless vision, Coltranes ...

Join Al Davis in celebrating John Coltrane’s music with our John Coltrane Centennial Special on GBH Music’s Jazz on 89.7, ...

Honing his own expressive power with extraordinary discipline, the saxophonist spent his career achieving new levels of musical transcendence.

In this centennial year marking the birth of saxophone giant John Coltrane in 1926, fellow saxophonist and New Orleans native Branford Marsalis is among the many musicians and jazz lovers ...

Live musical performances are usually freer than those recorded in studios, for reasons having to do with the peculiar psychology of many performing artists. In public, where what’s played is what’s ...

Toward the end of John Coltrane’s 1966 album Meditations, the saxophonist stops playing. So do bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, mainstays of Coltrane’s fierce quartet, making what ...

Less than $1,000 in private funds have been raised toward matching the city of High Point’s commitment of $200,000 to ...