The improbable new release by John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, arrives with the excitement of a rare celestial event. A small trove of previously unissued studio material ...

The music on this large boxed set contains the studio recordings of one of the great jazz bands of the post-war era, John Coltrane's “Classic Quartet." Featuring Coltrane on tenor and soprano ...

There are a handful of live performances which, preserved on recordings, have acquired overarching importance in the jazz canon. Charlie Parker's one-night-only appearance at Toronto's Massey Hall in ...

If you heard the John Coltrane Quartet live in the early to mid-1960s, you were at risk of having your entire understanding of performance rewired. This was a ground-shaking band, an almost physical ...

The bold and ferocious harmonic imagination of John Coltrane is laid bare in this concert, captured at the Comblain-La-Tour Festival in Belgium, 1965. Alongside his famed quartet, he delivers a ...

Ravi Coltrane is a critically acclaimed saxophonist, composer, bandleader, producer and founder of the independent record company RKM Music. He won’t come right out and say that he is the son of the ...

"There is never any end," John Coltrane said sometime in the mid-1960s, at the height of his powers. "There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at." Coltrane, one of jazz's most ...

The DownBeat editor, Don DeMicheal, printed this exchange in the April 1962 issue, as part of a fascinating article headlined "John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics." Regular readers ...