After years of playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, the saxophonist emerged as a jazz virtuoso by the end of the 1950s.... John Coltrane: Saxophone Icon, Pt. 2 After years of ...

Utilizing an array of extended techniques on the straighthorn, from circular breathing to multiphonics to slap-tongue percussive effects, Newsome puts his own personal stamp on John Coltrane's A Love ...

The brilliant jazz artist John Coltrane (1926-1967) is an iconic musician for so many reasons. There are his masterpiece recordings and his mastery of the soprano and tenor saxophones. He… The ...

In 2004 Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, and Dave Liebman joined forces as the long-lived Saxophone Summit and entered the studio with the expressed intent of considering the most difficult of the John ...

Award-winning saxophonist Michael Chapa leads an intimate John Coltrane tribute at Scout Hall in Cape Girardeau this Friday, Jan. 16, blending bebop, ballads and jazz standards.

Ravi Coltrane's new album is called Spirit Fiction. The jazz musician Ravi Coltrane, 47, didn't make his burden any lighter by choosing to play tenor and soprano saxophones — the same instruments his ...

Think jazz, and one of the first aural images that comes to mind is the sound of the saxophone: the sensual timbres of Ben Webster’s tenor, breathily exploring the dark heart of a ballad; Charlie ...

Portland’s 11-day-long PDX Jazz Festival, which concluded Sunday (Feb. 28), has made a specialty of honoring jazz history — Frank Sinatra last year, and John Coltrane this past weekend. The ...

The jazz musician Ravi Coltrane, 47, didn't make his burden any lighter by choosing to play tenor and soprano saxophones — the same instruments his father, John Coltrane, indelibly stamped with his ...