Piano, bass, and drums took center stage on March 21 at Symphony Hall, encircled by the traditional string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After a brief ...

To listen to John Coltrane is to accept uncertainty. His was a music of astute improvisation, sporadic gestures into some unknown territory. To enjoy Coltrane might require a retuning of one’s ears, ...

One Saturday in October 1965, John Coltrane did something unusual: He picked up his tenor saxophone and led his band into a performance of his masterpiece, A Love Supreme, a work he rarely played live ...

Most jazz lovers know that in 1965 the great saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967) played the Penthouse, the erstwhile Pioneer Square jazz club where he recorded the important transitional album “Live ...

If you could soundtrack the jangle of the sea and the jazz of the surf, The Mattson 2 would most certainly be the composers. The identical twin guitar and drums duo are truly a marvel of jazz-rock ...

Joe Lovano learned about John Coltrane in the basement of his Cleveland home. "My dad played saxophone," he said, "and he ...

Live musical performances are usually freer than those recorded in studios, for reasons having to do with the peculiar psychology of many performing artists. In public, where what’s played is what’s ...

John Scheinfeld’s latest film, Chasing Trane, isn’t just another jazz documentary—it’s more like a history lesson with heart. For his tribute to the great saxophonist, the director has assembled a ...

Pairing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane may at first seem odd. After all, they were born 241 years apart on different continents. They worked in dissimilar music fields: Bach is a ...