This is FRESH AIR. In the spring of 1960, John Coltrane played his last engagements as a sideman with Miles Davis on a European tour. Recordings from these concerts have been bootlegged for years. Now ...
From SFJazz to Stanford, Miles Davis and John Coltrane's centennial brings major jazz concerts to the Bay Area, with artists ...
The pianist Steve Kuhn can play John Coltrane’s music meaningfully without sounding as if he lives by it. That shows self-possession, for a couple of reasons. Coltrane was the most influential jazz ...
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, ...
McCoy Tyner, one of the greatest and most influential pianists in modern jazz history, has died at the age of 81. The death of the keyboard giant, who rose to fame in the early 1960s as a member of ...
NEW YORK (CBS SF) -- Jazz piano giant McCoy Tyner, who made his name as a member of saxophonist John Coltrane's classic quartet during the 1960s, has died at age 81, according to social media posts.
Photographer Leni Sinclair's exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum chronicles music legends.
Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane looms large in modern jazz history–a man and musician who overcame early personal problems to be a key part of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis’ legendary 1950s groups, ...
McCoy Tyner, whose performances with John Coltrane’s groundbreaking quartet of the 1960s and on dozens of his recordings made him one of the most influential jazz pianists of his generation, died ...