Often described as spiritual, meditative, raw, yearning, divine, longing, beautiful, transcendent and profound, the four-part ...
For the 60th anniversary of the release of "A Love Supreme" the Village Voice asked dozens of sax players to muse on the jazz masterpiece.
members of a jazz band have to be intimately attuned to the music at all times because they never know what direction it might take. If you don't, you may, as John Coltrane once put it ...
Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition ...
The story Burns tells suggests that jazz was in hibernation between the death of Coltrane and the eventual emergence of new traditionalists like Wynton Marsalis. The music played at Slugs’ and ...
Many movements in jazz are a direct result of cultural shifts in America, and connecting an artist's music to a time or an event in history can open up a new world when listening to it.
The scene was swingin' on Thursday night as the Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra presented a rousing Black History ...