The John Coltrane Quartet Plays came at a very interesting time in the bandleader's career. It was the follow-up to his landmark A Love Supreme (both 1965), and preceded another landmark ...

Jazz news: John Coltrane - The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings (Impulse, 1998). Posted in “Recording” column. Published: July 22, 2011 @ All About Jazz ...

Ravi Coltrane bears the weight of a great name, but he is his own man. In fact, with a horn in his mouth, he sounds more like Sonny Rollins than like his father, the late John Coltrane. Concert ...

It is fortunate that Coltrane managed to produce this album in the teeth of his detractors, because the sessions recorded later in 1962 and 1963, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Ballads, and John ...

That is how jazz commentator Murray Horwitz describes John Coltrane's sensual 1962 album, Ballads. The 2002 re-release of the record contains a bonus disc with previously unreleased tracks, ...

On “Vilia,” the quartet minds its manners as it had done on Ballads and Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, and as it would do the next day with Johnny Hartman.

Between his classics My Favorite Things and A Love Supreme, Coltrane recorded these sessions on a single day in 1963. 55 years later, Both Directions at Once arrives like a rare celestial event.

John Coltrane’s creative flame was burning at its brightest in 1964.The saxophonist had recently let go of his fixation on complex, layered harmonies, and he would soon pioneer a dry, squalling ...

Music: Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane. 1 minute read. Terry Teachout. June 25, 2001 12:00 AM EDT. S ome great ideas are so obvious that nobody thinks to carry them out.

A Lost Album From John Coltrane Is Found, Thanks To A French-Canadian Director Coltrane recorded the album in New Jersey, at the admiring behest of a Québécois filmmaker named Gilles Groulx, who ...

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 ...