Each year, for the past many years, Rob Dixon and the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation present a tribute concert to one of jazz ...
SIEGEL: This collection contains the only known complete live performance of the work. It also has previously unreleased alternate studio takes. Reviewer Tom Moon says the set is an illustration of ...
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 ...
During the 1950s, Mal Waldron sat down to write the song “Soul Eyes.” The song eventually found its way into the recording studio that same decade as part of the album Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 ...
On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones assembled at Englewood Cliffs, N.J.’s Van Gelder Studio. That one-day session became a ...
In April of 1957 John Coltrane was in a dark place. Miles Davis had just kicked him out of the biggest jazz group in the country for his “junkie s—,” a struggle with heroin and alcohol abuse that ...