MANY jazz listeners have affirmed, that in the long wake of the John Coltrane Quartet, the foursome that has since most ...

With George Gershwin’s melancholy melody and DuBose Heyward’s colloquial poetry, the opening aria from ‘Porgy and Bess’ remains, 90 years after its premiere, among the most beloved songs in American ...

Talk about a full-circle moment! While attending La Jolla Elementary School and La Jolla High School, Brian Levy spent many hours studying with some of San Diego’s top jazz saxophonists and learning ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The house where jazz legend John Coltrane lived in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion ...

Terrace Martin’s career has been defined by growth, resilience, and a deep reverence for the saxophone. The Los Angeles-born producer and musician collects vintage instruments, most notably Selmer ...

When Ravi Coltrane 's acoustic quartet, Coltraxx, took the stage at San Francisco's Miner Auditorium, it wove a tapestry of sound that honored jazz's lineage while boldly pushing its boundaries. The ...

A corner in the church of Saint John Coltrane. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea. For almost sixty years, His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King has been leading what he calls “sound baptisms” at the ...

They gathered one afternoon in late October of 1960, at the Atlantic Records studios in a nondescript building at 234 West 56th Street in New York: pianist McCoy Tyner, just 21, a prodigy from ...

photo - A celebrated saxophonist Joie Taylor has backed jazz stars like Delfayo Marsalis, Javon Jackson and Larry Coryell at Maui Jazz & Blues Festival shows. Courtesy photo Performing at the Maui ...

We don’t associate the great jazzman John Coltrane with the symphony orchestra, but the two find common ground this weekend in an imaginative piece by Guillaume Connesson, composer in residence at the ...

Trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is well acquainted with prestigious stages, from the Metropolitan Opera to the Monterey Jazz Festival. At the beginning of February, however, he returned to ...