John Coltrane News

At various locations in Montreal on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday It's not often that a concert can be both thrilling and disappointing at the same time.

CHARLIE RICE says he has always been a stand-up guy - even while sitting at the drums alongside jazz icons John Coltrane and Chet Baker.

Conventional wisdom has it that saxophonist Pharoah Sanders' signature, late-1960s astral jazz recording is "The Creator Has A Master Plan" from Karma .

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Recorded over the course of three days in April of 1961, Someday My Prince Will Come is at once a curiosity and a masterpiece, a recording that not only captures trumpeter Miles Davis' group in flux but ...

Bob Dylan . Yo-Yo Ma . Sheryl Crow . Jay-Z . These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod.

"Barack Obama has a serious iPod,'' says Will Dana, managing editor of Rolling Stone magazine.

"His death is a great loss for music, and I'm not sure that younger generations will sing as he did," said fellow musician Kresimir Tomec of the late Saban Bajramovic.

All of the jazz saxophone players in college worshiped John Coltrane's 'Giant Steps.' And young David Murray? 'Me, I definitely got tired of it,' he said with a shrug to a Kilbourn Hall crowd that probably also ...

The news as of the second cup of coffee this morning, and the music is a good album that jazzheads get their undies in a serious bunch about -- John Coltrane's A Love Supreme .

Escape the heat and discover a new music scene at the Flagstaff Music Festival this weekend.

The many-sided figure defined by the intersecting lines among saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman is the space that tenor saxophonist Odean Pope inhabits and expands ...

It may not be as catchy a bass anthem as "School Days," but "'Bout the Bass" captures Stanley Clarke at his peak improvisational power in a previously uncharted sonic setting.

This week we take a look at jazz recordings that feature compositions that have been 'altered" with the addition of lyrics well after the original song was published and recorded.

Concord Music Group unveils new section of ConcordMusicGroup.com devoted to rarities and collectibles With labels such as Fantasy, Specialty, Prestige and Stax, the scope of the Concord Music Group catalog is ...

Presented by Warehouse 21 & New Mexico Jazz Workshop Date: June 26, 2008 Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm Place: Warehouse 21 Location: 1614 Paseo de Peralta, SFNM 87501 Price: FREE and open to emerging musicians from ...

THE MUSIC OF saxophonist John Coltrane exists in the odd position of having its legacy neglected by the same powerful cultural authorities who feel required to pay it lip service, such as the neo-conservative ...

Freddie Hubbard is part of the most concentrated group of trumpet talents in jazz history, born on Apr.

The 11th Annual All-District Band Spectacular took place at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center in San Mateo May 21, featuring our local K-8 and middle schools Cabrillo, Ingrid B. Lacy, Ocean Shore and ...

I spend many summer nights in the back yard of my Albany home, listening to jazz or a baseball game on the radio.