On March 6, 1963, the saxophonist John Coltrane, the bassist Jimmy Garrison, the drummer Elvin Jones, and the pianist McCoy Tyner—the same crew responsible for some of the world’s most plainly ...

Besides "Giant Steps," the songs that every Coltrane fan, er fanatic, has probably committed to memory note-for-note are the three presented here, "Naima," "My Favorite Things" and the four-part suite ...

Discovering old and forgotten audio tapes of a jazz icon like John Coltrane is always exciting, but their posthumous release can have mixed motives. Taking advantage of the musician's name to make ...

The two-disc “Offering” practically begins mid-sentence, with John Coltrane already into the opening number “Naima” before the engineer for Temple University’s WRTI radio station could hit the “record ...

It’s hard to overstate the esteem which jazz fans hold the music of American saxophonist John Coltrane. And when it comes to the most-loved era of Coltrane’s music, it’s the ‘classic quartet’ of ...