John Coltrane

All About Jazz — This recoding documents a live meeting between two of the legends of the "new thing" free jazz movement of the 1960's, drummer Rashied Ali, who was best known as John Coltrane's last drummer, but was also a loft jazz club entrepreneur and label owner... more info

Guardian Music — Last week's song choices were written in the stars, but now it's time to dig deep and root out those little lettuce gemsHello pop people, I'm glad you could make it. Well, actually I knew you would be here, because it was written in the stars. Years ... more info

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating John Coltrane's birthday today! John ColtraneJohn William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. At the age of three his family moved to High Point, NC, where young Coltrane spent his early ... more info

All About Jazz — OLINDA, Brazil (AFP)—Brazil's unique tropical blend of samba-rock-guitar known as MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) has exerted an irrepressible influence on modern jazz, masters of the genre say. "Since I played with John Coltrane in 1961, I star... more info

All About Jazz — I've gone on record more than once saying I lean more toward John Coltrane than Miles Davis. Yet such is the magnitude of Davis' legacy that it is impossible for either jazz fan or jazz critic to avoid spending considerable time listening to the trum... more info

All About Jazz — Boston is celebrating John Coltrane - one of America's most influential musicians—the week of September 16-18, 2010 at Northeastern University with a series of lectures, audio visual exhibits and a concert. The idea for an annual John Coltrane M... more info

Guardian Music — American free jazz saxophonist with a passionate and rebellious soundNoah Howard, the alto saxophonist, who has died of a cerebral haemorrhage aged 67, never built a reputation as substantial as those of many of his early playing partners – such as... more info

Guardian Music — (Session Work)The young Slovenian saxist Jure Pukl's latest album (made in New York with locals including the celebrated drummer Marcus Gilmore) is hooked into a taut, hip-hop-influenced contemporary American atmosphere. Pukl is a player of patience ... more info

All About Jazz — I often refer to the Spiritual side of Jazz and in particular,.free Jazz,.no less than like a preacher on the pulpit.Some folks consider a spiritual perspective on music an excuse to just play wild and free with no real focus and or maybe no real ski... more info

All About Jazz — For the last dozen years, percussionist-composer Anthony Brown's innovative Asian American Orchestra has reinvented classics of American music by composers Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and George Gershwin from a Pacific Rim perspe... more info