The iconic saxophonist's influence on jazz music continues to resonate nearly a century after his birth.

Keep listening. Never become so self-important that you can’t listen to other players. Live cleanly. Do right. You can improve as a player by improving as a person. It’s a duty we owe ourselves.

A Gen Z reader wants to get into the genre but wonders, “Who should I listen to?” By David Renard As the season of Nutcrackers, Messiahs, Scrooges and Santas begins, here are some novel ways to enjoy ...

When the iconic jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins compares a musical discovery to “finding a new room in the Great Pyramid,” it’s bound to create both curiosity and excitement. Such was the case when the ...

More than 50 years after John Coltrane’s death, Impulse! Records is releasing new music from the jazz legend. The record label had long thought the album to be lost after the tapes it was recorded on ...

Today, exactly 50 years will have passed since the death of John Coltrane, one of the most groundbreaking and technically gifted jazz musicians ever. Over the course of his four decades on earth, ...

Fifty years ago, when drummer Rashied Ali entered the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for his latest session with John Coltrane, he was surprised to find the rest of the saxophonist ...

They gathered one afternoon in late October of 1960, at the Atlantic Records studios in a nondescript building at 234 West 56th Street in New York: pianist McCoy Tyner, just 21, a prodigy from ...

No score yet, be the first to add. A previously unknown recording, discovered by chance in 2017, captures the saxophonist testing the limits of his sound in the summer of 1961. It’s a snapshot of a ...

This article is a companion piece to John Coltrane: An Alternative Top Ten Albums, which listed ten albums widely regarded as essential items in John Coltrane's discography and discussed another ten ...