This year would have marked the 100th birthday for both of the legendary players and composers ...

Piano, bass, and drums took center stage on March 21 at Symphony Hall, encircled by the traditional string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After a brief ...

St. Louis has always stood at the intersection of the great modern musical genres, whether that’s the blues, jazz, rock and roll, or hip-hop. So it only makes sense that Terence Blanchard and Ravi ...

To listen to John Coltrane is to accept uncertainty. His was a music of astute improvisation, sporadic gestures into some unknown territory. To enjoy Coltrane might require a retuning of one’s ears, ...

Most jazz lovers know that in 1965 the great saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967) played the Penthouse, the erstwhile Pioneer Square jazz club where he recorded the important transitional album “Live ...

One Saturday in October 1965, John Coltrane did something unusual: He picked up his tenor saxophone and led his band into a performance of his masterpiece, A Love Supreme, a work he rarely played live ...

Pairing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane may at first seem odd. After all, they were born 241 years apart on different continents. They worked in dissimilar music fields: Bach is a ...

Last month the John Coltrane section in your streaming libraries acquired a new item: a recording of “A Love Supreme,” the entire suite, from Seattle’s Penthouse jazz club in 1965. Superb and imposing ...