Ravi Coltrane News

Coming off the heals of an extraordinary 2007 fall/winter touring season, Walker impressed critics with her performances in Moscow, Tel Aviv, and most recently at the Black Rock Performing Arts Center outside ...

Billy Bang and Paul Rucker. A Vietnam vet turned spastic, free-form violinist, Bronx native Billy Bang played in the Sun Ra Arkestra after the war and now in his own quartet.

Saxophone Summit : The original summiteers were Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, and the late Michael Brecker.

OK's "Eating Mantis" Released Today ok ok's first CD Eating Mantis was released today from Ravi Coltrane's label RKM Music.

Trumpeter and composer Jason Palmer cares intensely about jazz and his place within its musical world.

In 2004, guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana augmented the Santana band with a stellar group of musicians for an evening billed as "Hymns for Peace" at the world famous Montreux Jazz Festival.

When Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba first played in North America it was at this festival, on an electric piano, in a tent, 20 years ago.

The saxophonist Ravi Coltrane began the tribute concert he had organized to his late mother, the pianist Alice Coltrane, on Tuesday night, with a touching testimonial describing her lifelong quest for an ...

Today: Salsabrosa, 6 p.m.; Fort Apache Band, 8:30 p.m. Free. Saturday: Walker West Music Academy, noon; Acme Jazz Company, 2 p.m.; Bill Crutcher, 4 p.m.; Tanner Taylor, 6 p.m.; Ravi Coltrane, 8:30 p.m. Free.

When Saxophone Summit released their debut album, Gathering of Spirits, in 2004, the critics raved.

Forget Disneyland. If you love music, Montreal, from June 26 to July 6, is the happiest place on Earth.

MONTREAL -- Eleven days of music and entertainment get underway June 26 with the 29th annual Montreal Jazz Festival.The celebration starts at noon each day and runs until midnight, ending July 6. Several city ...

Jazz Video Guy Bret Primack announces the debut of his new series, the Saxophone Summit Podcasts.

Norah Jones, nine time Grammy Award winning artist, will perform along with saxophonists Ravi Coltrane and Seamus Blake at the Lefrak Theater at the American Museum of Natural History on June 2, 2008 to benefit ...

One night only. Special jazz performance by Ravi Coltrane to benefit PS 107. 13th Street and 8th Avenue.

“The group is excellent at executing Alessi's eclectic and original pieces and making them enjoyable and seductively challenging. Look is an exceptional work by one of today's top trumpet players.”

On Friday, May 16th New Haven's Firehouse 12 will present a two-set performance by New York trumpeter/composer Ralph Alessi and his all-star quintet, This Against That. via All About Jazz

ICP Orchestra: Headed by two Dutch masters, pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink, the Amsterdam-based ICP Orchestra proves that free jazz can be fun. via Detroit Free Press

“We're always trying to put together a program that's diverse and has a broad appeal for lots of different audiences”

No genre will be left behind at the 2008 Groove-FM Jazz Winnipeg Festival. From iconic New Orleans trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to Canuck indie-pop hipsters Stars, the lineup for this year's June 20 - 29 fest, ... via Slam Sports

They call their band Buffalo Collision, giving no small hint of their wiry-maned intentions. via All About Jazz

By MARK STRYKER * FREE PRESS MUSIC CRITIC * March 20, 2008 JAZZ The last time drummer Roy Haynes and saxophonist Ravi Coltrane were in metro Detroit, they were part of a John Coltrane tribute in the fall of ... via Detroit Free Press