Discovering old and forgotten audio tapes of a jazz icon like John Coltrane is always exciting, but their posthumous release can have mixed motives. Taking advantage of the musician's name to make ...

If Blue Note Records producer Alfred Lion had regrets, topping the list would probably be chasing after his cat. In late 1956 or early '57, the dumb curiosity of the office feline would wind up ...

Music the saxophonist recorded with his classic quartet for a Canadian film drama will see release next month as 'Blue World' Set in Montreal in 1964, the French New Wave–influenced Le chat dans le ...

“Blue World,” culled from the sessions the saxophonist led for a film soundtrack, is a moment of looking back before he pushed even further ahead. By Giovanni Russonello John Coltrane’s creative flame ...

The set hits No. 1 on the Jazz Albums, Traditional Jazz Albums & Vinyl Albums charts after 65th-anniversary expanded reissue. By Keith Caulfield John Coltrane’s Blue Train, first released in 1957, ...

Instead of looking toward the past, Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane looked toward the future, reimagining compositions ...

Commissioned for a film soundtrack, these tracks and takes were not intended for release, but they show a group at the height of its powers Puzzled eavesdroppers on recent jazz gossip might be ...

Blue Note Records has emerged the triumphant owner of a 1957 recording by the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, trumping the interest of Sony BMG's Legacy Recordings and Verve Records. By ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last year’s rediscovered John Coltrane session, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, was a work-in-progress ...

It was certainly the unprecedented success of last year's lost Coltrane album that convinced the Impulse label to keep digging. Both Directions at Once gave the great saxophonist his highest-ever ...