L.A. Times - Entertainment — Frida Kahlo and John Coltrane are an unlikely pair, but at the Ford amphitheater in Hollywood, they proved an exhilarating match. The Los Angeles-based Latin dance theater troupe Contra-Tiempo opened the Ford show Saturday night with a new homage to ... more info

Core News — “Iggy serves you a Friday night sonic cocktail including tracks by BB King, Savages, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and John Coltrane. Iggy’s musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll’s alternative spirit since the late Sixties and ... more info

Uncut — The Atlantic Years is due in June A number of John Coltrane‘s mono albums from the Atlantic label will be released in CD and LP boxed sets. …Continue reading » The post John Coltrane mono box set announced appeared first on Uncut. more info

New York Times — The saxophonist Joe Lovano assembled a kind of dream team for a concert that is part of a 90th-birthday tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. more info

Rolling Stone — Unless you're a Lakers fan, there's a pretty good chance you've hated Kobe Bryant at some point in your life – two decades of dominant, domineering play tends to have that effect on folks. Of course, there's an even better chance that Kobe never... more info

Guardian Music — UK producer’s music of the moment includes 80s boogie, Icelandic jazz, a little-known vocalist whose voice is ‘made of oak’ and a film gemMy friend Rob Lee (of Wax Stag) put on The Box Tree one night when I went to stay with him. I remember it ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — John Coltrane would’ve turned 89 today. While it’s a fun parlor game to imagine the twists and turns the saxophonist’s music might’ve taken if he’d lived just another decade longer, in the end we’re lucky to have had him as long we did â€... more info

Core News — “Opening the show with a jazz classic from John Coltrane, into new Stones Throw material, Sil Rhodes. New Mura Masa on Jakarta Records, new exclusive music from 2 Tall on IZWID, music from K.Raydio & O-D, Criolo from Brasil, have music from La Reun... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The two-disc "Offering" practically begins mid-sentence, with John Coltrane already into the opening number "Naima" before the engineer for Temple University's WRTI radio station could hit the "record" button. more info

Mercury News, California — Also on tap: Joshua Redman; the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Allen Toussaint; and Ravi Coltrane, Joe Lovano and Steve Coleman paying tribute to John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme.' more info