WASHINGTON -- One of John Coltrane's tenor saxophones is joining the jazz collection at the Smithsonian. Coltrane's son, musician Ravi Coltrane, donated one of his father's three principal tenor ...

More than 40 years after his death, John Coltrane remains the most influential tenor saxophonist in jazz history. Whether it's his patented "sheets of sound," his rapid-fire improvisations or his bold ...

Ravi Coltrane is many things: a producer (credits include Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour), a son (his parents were John and Alice Coltrane), and an accomplished jazz saxophonist in his own right ...

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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 ...

When it comes to the titans of jazz, most people would give you the name John Coltrane. He recorded a wealth of music in his short career but many consider the 1965 record “A Love Supreme” to be his ...

Few jazz artists have been as visionary and influential the legendary saxophonist, composer and band leader John Coltrane, who died in 1967 at the age of 40. He has been cited as a major inspiration, ...

At a press conference in Tokyo in 1966, almost exactly a year before he died of liver cancer at the age of 40, John Coltrane was asked, "What would you like to be in 10 years?" He replied, "I would ...

One of John Coltrane’s tenor saxophones is joining the jazz collection at the Smithsonian. Coltrane’s son, Ravi Coltrane, will donate one of his father’s three principal tenor saxophones to the ...

After years of playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, saxophonist and composer John Coltrane began to emerge as a jazz pioneer at the end of the 1950s. A few months after ...