Today marks what would have been jazz giant John Coltrane's 94th birthday. Two years before his untimely death from liver cancer in 1967, a young San Francisco couple heard him play — and their ...

Musical virtuoso, record executive, wife, and mother. Then widow. Then spiritual guru. Then creative innovator. Then author. Then all of that and more. Alice Coltrane (1937–2007) mourned the ...

Coltrane changed the game in American music a few times over. Here’s a guided tour to his career, courtesy of 15 musicians, scholars, poets, writers and other experts. By Giovanni Russonello Yes, it’s ...

The Philadelphia rowhouse once owned by the jazz musician will be restored through funds provided by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By Mia ...

A previously unknown recording, discovered by chance in 2017, captures the saxophonist testing the limits of his sound in the summer of 1961. It’s a snapshot of a pivotal moment in jazz’s evolution.