Alice Coltrane, a jazz performer and composer and wife of the late saxophone legend John Coltrane, has died. She was 69. Coltrane died Friday of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical ...

There's a new John Coltrane album out today, 55 years after its recording and 51 years after the legendary saxophonist's death. It's a remarkable turn of events. Remarkably exciting, too -- especially ...

Andy Beta’s ‘Cosmic Music’ argues that the pianist, harpist and spiritual visionary was never merely adjacent to jazz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Chasing Trane” is a seductive piece of middle-of-the-road documentary filmmaking; it gives you the basics, but beautifully. (You ...

Saxophonist John Coltrane was such a person, one of the most revered, beloved, and influential musicians in history. Born September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, N.C., Coltrane was a constant sojourner, his ...

One of three instruments Coltrane would use as he blazed through the next two years, reinventing himself—and jazz music— at a pace many found exhausting. National Museum of American History Before he ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On a raw, wet night in early December, Ravi Coltrane walked into the ...

John Coltrane never stopped wondering what he wanted from music, and never stopped pushing the boundaries. Trane genuinely strove to be saintly in his devotion to the divine, creating a body of deeply ...

The Epic, a new 3-disk set by saxophonist Kamasi Washington has just been released on Brainfeeder Records. It’s of the same Spiritual Jazz musical DNA as John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Meditations, ...

When John Coltrane finished high school in 1943, the 17 year old moved from North Carolina to Philadelphia, joining his mother, Alice, who worked as a domestic. Soon after his arrival, she bought him ...

Few jazz artists have been as visionary and influential the legendary saxophonist, composer and band leader John Coltrane, who died in 1967 at the age of 40. He has been cited as a major inspiration, ...

On March 6, 1963, John Coltrane and his quartet arrived at Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey to record an album. It was a busy time for the group, which featured pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy ...