John Coltrane

Within 18 months of making Blue Train, John Coltrane would play on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and produce his own epochal Giant Steps album.

This week on The Local Take, we’re speaking with Carole Boston Weatherford, author of a new children’s book about the Tulsa Massacre called “Unspeakable:…

Dave Stryker pops up in a lot of Modern Jazz music I like. He toured for a decade with Stanley Turrentine, and he's worked with a number of Jazz notables…

The Ailey organization continues to honor its founder who taught the important lesson of “holding a mirror to society so that people can see how beautiful…

Teodross Avery is an Oakland, California-born musical prodigy, who started playing the saxophone at age 13 after hearing John Coltrane's Giant Steps. He's…

Check out this weekend's edition of UPFRONT Inside Atlanta's Entertainment Industry. It features my exclusive conversation with hip hip icon and Oscar…

Michelle is the only daughter of John and Alice Coltrane. She was born in Paris and experienced her formative years as a DJ in Japan, where she began to…

Sunday, December 3 on Jazz Tones on Jazz 91.9 WCLK, 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., I will interview award-winning vocalist Michelle Coltrane. She is the…

Check out the November 18 edition of "UPFRONT Inside Atlanta's Entertainment Industry." My special guests included award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson…

2017 has been a good year for John Coltrane fans. First, the John Scheinfeld film Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary revealed his life and music…