Coltrane played his last engagements as a sideman with Davis in the spring of 1960. Recordings from those European shows have been bootlegged for years; now a few are collected in a new anthology.

Sometime around the mid-1980’s, I bought an LP copy of Miles Davis & John Coltrane Live in Stockholm 1960, on the Swedish label Dragon Records. The March 1960 concert featured a stupendous Coltrane ...

Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane looms large in modern jazz history–a man and musician who overcame early personal problems to be a key part of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis’ legendary 1950s groups, ...

McCoy Tyner, one of the greatest and most influential pianists in modern jazz history, has died at the age of 81. The death of the keyboard giant, who rose to fame in the early 1960s as a member of ...

Just in time for the 2026 celebration of John Coltrane’s centennial, progress is finally underway on the restoration of the saxophonist’s long beleaguered house in Strawberry Mansion. Coltrane bought ...

The post John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme Certified Platinum 56 Years After Its Release appeared first on Consequence. It took 56 years, but John Coltrane’s magnum opus, A Love Supreme, has been ...

A literal storm was brewing when Miles Davis performed a pair of remarkable San Diego shows on the same night at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay in April 1985. The resulting rains and winds were so ...

Jazz giant John Coltrane’s cousin, who inspired the composition “Cousin Mary” from his landmark album “Giant Steps,” has died in Philadelphia. Mary Lyerly Alexander was 92. Carla Washington of ...

John Coltrane‘s “final tour” as Miles Davis‘ sideman will be the focus of the upcoming sixth volume in Davis’ Bootleg Series. The four-disc The Final Tour: Bootleg Series Vol. 6, due out March 23rd, ...