Saxophonist Archie Shepp’s first major studio statement, 'Four For Trane,' is getting a vinyl reissue in the Verve Vault ...

The jazz legend bought the house at 1511 N. 33rd Street and lived there until 1958. Fires, demolition, and legal troubles ...

Alexander Malofeev, the gifted 23-year-old Russian pianist, returns to Buffalo to open the 2025-26 season for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.

John William Coltrane was born on Sept. 23, 1926, in Hamlet, NC. By the time of his high school graduation he knew his life’s vocation was to be music. His mother bought him his first alto saxophone ...

A corner in the church of Saint John Coltrane. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up For ...

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 ...

Piano, bass, and drums took center stage on March 21 at Symphony Hall, encircled by the traditional string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After a brief ...

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 ...

Musical virtuoso, record executive, wife, and mother. Then widow. Then spiritual guru. Then creative innovator. Then author. Then all of that and more. Alice Coltrane (1937–2007) mourned the ...

In 1972, Alice Coltrane moved her family from New Jersey to California with the goal of building an ashram. Settling in Agoura Hills, the jazz virtuoso and Hindu spiritual leader led a faith-based ...