Discovering old and forgotten audio tapes of a jazz icon like John Coltrane is always exciting ... the melody is then stated by Trane. The piece builds in intensity, but there is not much of musical ...

How about a Grammy Award-winning string quartet that plays jazz? VOA's Doug Levine fills us in on the Turtle Island Quartet, whose latest album pays tribute to jazz legend John Coltrane.

3) Spiritual; 4) Impressions; 5) I Want To Talk About You; 6) My Favorite Things *Disc: 6: 1) Mr. P.C.; 2) Lonnie's Lament; 3) Naima; 4) Chasin' The Trane 5) My Favorite Things *Disc: 7: 1) Afro Blue; ...

“We went to lunch and she began to talk to me about an idea she had for creating a work around (jazz saxophone innovator and composer) John Coltrane’s music,” said Heacox, a jazz sax player ...

John Scheinfeld ... Trane’s lilting rendition of “My Favorite Things,” which became a jazz hit in 1961. Wynton Marsalis attributes the song’s enormous popularity to Coltrane’s ...

When the Miles Davis Quintet headed to Europe in spring 1960, John Coltrane had ... On Davis’s “Kind of Blue,” jazz’s most famous modal album, Coltrane and the other soloists glide above ...

By Giovanni Russonello Yes, it’s time for this series to focus on John Coltrane ... expectations for jazz improvisers by a big margin. Swinging in the other direction, Trane brought his ...

Saxophone legends Kirk MacDonald & Pat LaBarbera pay tribute to one of jazz music's pioneers of improvisation, harmony, and the saxophone, John Coltrane, backed by a rhythm section of some of the ...