The Spoleto Festival USA Roars Back
It’s difficult to imagine what the stage and the audience would have looked like at Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, if Rhiannon Giddens’ new … Read More “The Spoleto Festival USA Roars Back”
Reviews
Ravi Coltrane Quartet at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz
Ravi Coltrane is a critically acclaimed saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Over the course of his twenty plus year career, Coltrane has worked as a sideman to … Read More “Ravi Coltrane Quartet at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz”
Cosmic Music: The Music of John and Alice Coltrane – Ravi Coltrane at SFJAZZ Center
For this exclusive four-night run, saxophonist and composer Ravi Coltrane explores the music of his legendary parents John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. An artist whose career occupies … Read More “Cosmic Music: The Music of John and Alice Coltrane – Ravi Coltrane at SFJAZZ Center”
Ravi Coltrane at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in Seattle
Ravi Coltrane – Cosmic Music The music of John and Alice Coltrane Grammy nominated saxophonist on tour in support of his latest release Cosmic Music … Read More “Ravi Coltrane at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in Seattle”
Live Review: ECM 50 in New York
To say that there is a single ECM Records sound is to oversimplify a catalog that now encompasses more than 1,600 albums. One suspects that … Read More “Live Review: ECM 50 in New York”
Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Weekend 1
One way to define a music festival: the sum of its memorable moments. There were plenty of those moments to savor during the first four … Read More “Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Weekend 1”
Ralph Alessi: Imaginary Friends (ECM)
The musical bond between trumpeter Ralph Alessi and saxophonist Ravi Coltrane is arguably developing into a rapport on par with the highest echelon of trumpet/tenor … Read More “Ralph Alessi: Imaginary Friends (ECM)”
Live Review: 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival
In Switzerland, a snowman effigy called a Böögg is burned and exploded at the stake as a way of marking winter’s end and predicting the fortitude … Read More “Live Review: 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival”
DC Jazz Fest at the Yards
Kamasi, Ravi, Revive Big Band and more
Jack DeJohnette/Ravi Coltrane/Matthew Garrison: In Movement (ECM)
Talk about having the weight of history on your back: For the first time on disc, the sons of one half of jazz’s all-time greatest … Read More “Jack DeJohnette/Ravi Coltrane/Matthew Garrison: In Movement (ECM)”