Impressions' documents John Coltrane’s classic quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones.

There is a lot to love about April 2026's full album release schedule. (And that is besides all the releases on Record Store ...

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 ...

A four-day John Coltrane celebration, “Sheets of Sound: The John Coltrane Summit" begins today, Monday, November 6 and continues through Thursday, November 9, at New York's Manhattan School of Music.

The jazz musician didn't make his burden any lighter by choosing to play tenor and soprano saxophones — the same instruments his father, John... Ravi Coltrane: A Noble Sound, Witness To Its Heritage ...

In April of 1957 John Coltrane was in a dark place. Miles Davis had just kicked him out of the biggest jazz group in the country for his “junkie s—,” a struggle with heroin and alcohol abuse that ...

I suppose there are still those who attend Ravi Coltrane sets out of curiosity, or some attempt to somehow access the Coltrane legacy in real time. It's true that the son of John Coltrane and Alice ...

Jazz can be intimidating, especially to the non-musician. Much of the criticism is theoretical and mathematic, written in a clubby language that tunes out those of us who can't recognize an ascending ...