The post John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme Certified Platinum 56 Years After Its Release appeared first on Consequence. It took 56 years, but John Coltrane’s magnum opus, A Love Supreme, has been ...

The first time he heard John Coltrane's version of "My Favorite Things," Robin Washington was about 6 years old, killing time outside the Chicago office of the Congress of Racial Equality. His mother ...

The pianist Steve Kuhn can play John Coltrane’s music meaningfully without sounding as if he lives by it. That shows self-possession, for a couple of reasons. Coltrane was the most influential jazz ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

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 physical ...

Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane looms large in modern jazz history–a man and musician who overcame early personal problems to be a key part of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis’ legendary 1950s groups, ...