A little over 60 years ago, the editor-in-chief of DownBeat magazine asked John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy a deceptively simple question: What are you trying to do? He rephrased slightly: What are you ...

Few jazz musicians inspire more respect or demand more attention than John Coltrane. Elvin Jones, Coltrane's drummer in "The Classic Quartet" (1961-65), said that most people who listen seriously to ...

Without a doubt, saxophonist John Coltrane's band after he left trumpeter Miles Davis in 1960 is one of the defining groups of jazz, and for the year or so during which multi- instrumentalist Eric ...

Southern Roots -- Life without Father -- A Musical Education I -- "Every Day Was an Adventure" -- A Musical Education II -- Philadelphia, 1946-48 -- A Musical Education III -- Apprenticeship with ...

A previously unknown recording, discovered by chance in 2017, captures the saxophonist testing the limits of his sound in the summer of 1961. It’s a snapshot of a pivotal moment in jazz’s evolution.