The late jazz great, who would have turned 100 this week, had the capacity to surprise us like no other. Here are his five best records Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...

From obsessive practise to jazz greatness, John Coltrane built an enduring legacy, cemented by A Love Supreme, one of jazz's best-selling albums.

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 ...

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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 ...

Yesterday, I went with my family to visit Shizuoka, where my son lives. Before heading to our destination, my son mentioned a ...

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Some albums were so unforgettable and iconic that they turned the venues where they were recorded into landmarks of music history. Here are five worth knowing.

Former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins is an aficionado of jazz, and once named what he thinks is the greatest jazz album ...

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival's biggest-ever crowd came out for a dazzling roster whose wide-ranging talents brought us two days of music with open borders.

The genius of this jazz pianist, who was born 109 years ago in 1917, was not always well understood, but today he is revered ...