John Coltrane News

Has the hot weather or rain got you feeling a little down? Are you feeling a bit blue? Well, whether your answer is yes or no, there is a place in town that can help you into or out of a blue mood.

Gato Barbieri winds up and uncorks a meandering apocalyptic shout that begins with a growling, sinewy tenor and often returns there via a continuous spiral of bell-like primal screeches.

In my early 20's, the owner of this place gave me my first break in bartending. Little does anyone know, that I actually cut my teeth in one of the most historic jazz filled areas of San Francisco.

The forecast for the Ottawa International Jazz Festival Thursday night called for overcast skies and stormy weather with brilliant flashes of tenor saxophone.

It's impossible to avoid hyperbole in any reference to A Love Supreme , John Coltrane's 1965 recording that brought to the world jazz's spiritual, barrier-shattering genius at the artistic crossroads of bebop and free jazz.

The fourth-floor gallery's share of Thaddeus Mosley: Sculpture There is an easy harmony between the Mattress Factory's white-washed brick walls and the richly oiled, wood-and-metal totems comprising Thaddeus Mosley: Sculpture .

So, honestly, was that the best Stevie Wonder concert ever? Um, no. It was definitely a good time, but as the soul legend proved in his Bell Centre show before a mere 8,700 fans in 2007, he is capable of better.

The title track of Ottawa-born pianist Josh Rager's acclaimed 2008 album is Time and Again, a reference to things both good and bad in our lives that happen over and over, whether we like it or not.

Modern Jazz Concept Album Signals Debut for New Artist and Label from New York City's Underground.

Traffickers of crack cocaine, marijuana, Oxycontin and heroin took a hit Monday night when law enforcement executed a raid in Wooster, Orrville and surrounding areas, culminating a nine-month investigation.

Guitarist Derek Trucks plays a string of jazz festivals for his current Canadian tour.

Fifty years ago, the jazz world should have belonged to Miles Davis, who released the coolest and most seductive album in its history, Kind of Blue, which also revolutionized the music with improvisations upon vaguely exotic-sounding "modal" scales .

9, at 20 Dashiell Hammett St. 2. Church of Satan poobah Anton LaVey supposedly cursed the Fox Plaza, site of the Fox movie palace, taking the building's 13th floor to the next spooky level.

In 1955, Nesuhi Ertegun joined Atlantic Records, the label founded by his younger brother Ahmet.

Sounds & Sights on Thursday Nights in downtown Chelsea kicks of its 2009 season tonight and runs through Sept.

The unfettered joy of listening to J.D. Allen's Shine comes from being reunited with the blues and spiritualism of modern Afro-American saxophone music.

If you only know alto saxophonist John Handy as a sideman, you don't really know John Handy.

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb has spent the last half century laying down rhythms for stars like Sarah Vaughn and Nancy Wilson, so one might expect him to tyre of talking about the milestone record on which he played in 1959.

THERE won't be a birthday party with cake to mark the 20th Jazz Winnipeg Festival.

A tough-talking, soul-strutting night on the tiles or The King and I? No contest ... Been So Long ? Been for ever since musical theatre has seen anything like this.