The Charleston Jazz Orchestra celebrates 100 years of two jazz visionaries on Saturday at the Charleston Music Hall. John ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Coltrane was famously known for playing the giant, lovable, dragon-obsessed gamekeeper at Hogwarts, Rubeus Hagrid, but he ...

John Coltrane, US Navy enlistment photo. 1945. Coltrane, born in 1926, is 18 years old in the photo. From the Tumblr of Jazz at Lincoln Center … In 1945 John Coltrane, at the age of 18, entered the ...

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 ...

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 ...

One man's meditation can be a migraine to another. By the early '60's, John Coltrane found himself moving ever further away from traditional forms of musical expression, and into what could be ...

The groundbreaking musician Alice Coltrane gets her first comprehensive biography, thanks to author Andy Beta.

John Coltrane's son Ravi Coltrane on the long-lost recording of his father's that is now seeing the light of day for the first time. By Natalie Weiner A trip to the late Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in ...

"There is never any end," John Coltrane said sometime in the mid-1960s, at the height of his powers. "There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at." Coltrane, one of jazz's most ...