When little in the world seems to make much sense anymore, when all the noise, turmoil and strife is getting to be too much, there can be no better medicine than beautiful music to soothe the troubled ...

More than just supplying a new interpretation of a 45-year-old jazz classic, Kurt Elling has taken John Coltrane’s 1963 songbook and applied to his voice the sort of inventiveness that the legendary ...

Our annual tribute to John Coltrane on the week of his birthday--His music as interpreted by Billy Bang, Bob Mintzer Big Band, Kenny Garrett, Larry Coryell and more. Includes a rendering of the album ...

The 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman is a rarity in Coltrane’s catalog, marking the only time the eminent saxophonist recorded with a singer while leading his own band. But what a one-off ...

"John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman," the classic 1963 collection of romantic ballads, is so beloved by jazz and pop fans that a concert salute to the recording is an easy sell. The hard part comes in ...

Ted Nash - a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra directed by Wynton Marsalis, and one of the founders of the Jazz Composers Collective - has become one of the most significant jazz ...

When John Coltrane introduced “Chasin’ the Trane” 45 years ago at The Village Vanguard, he immediately split the jazz world in two. It was perhaps the most extreme, avant-garde piece of jazz ever ...

I am a book critic for The New York Times. I’m culturally omnivorous and go out (concerts, theater, ballet, movies, opera) too often. Here are a few things I’ve found sustaining → Jan Persson/PBS ...

Released 51 years after his death, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album has caused a stir through the jazz world. It is “unbelievable music”, according to music historian and Coltrane biographer ...

Although he was a solo artist for only seven years, John Coltrane became one of the most renowned saxophonists in history. In 1963, Coltrane... John Coltrane: 'John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman' [MUSIC ...