For Thelonious Monk's 108th Birthday, we look back at the sparsely documented collaboration of the eccentric pianist and ...

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 ...

All music is, as are all our greater gestures and pursuits—poetry, painting, literature, sculpture, dance—spiritual by nature. An outreach by the artist and thus, by extension, us, beyond the daily ...

A long-lost live recording featuring one of John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy’s 1961 sets at New York’s Village Gate has been unearthed for release this summer. Evenings at the Village Gate, out July 14 ...

Rhino Records is launching a quarterly series of limited-edition vinyl releases intended to appeal to LP-loving audiophiles, with records that are cut directly from analog sources by one of the most ...

Hear tracks by Claud, Silvana Estrada, Hannah Georgas and others. By Jon Pareles Giovanni Russonello and Lindsay Zoladz Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most ...

Over the past nine years, the guitarist’s hushed, hypnotic suite of koan-like pieces has gathered a cult fan base. It’s a perfect encapsulation of his music’s mystical, spiritual energies. Save this ...

A new album featuring a 1961 set from John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy has been announced. Its tracks include music recorded during Coltrane’s month-long Village Gate residency with a quintet featuring ...

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 ...

Some great ideas are so obvious that nobody thinks to carry them out. Songbird Karrin Allyson, for example, is the first jazz vocalist ever to record a CD devoted to the songs performed by master ...

The Coltrane legacy in jazz is vast and monumentally influential—that is a known quantity in the music world. So much of that legacy is filled with the artistic resonance of John Coltrane, whose ...