Listen to our experts’ selections from one of jazz’s great labels, with tracks from Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, Gato ...

Music critic Walter Tunis curates 15-track Valentine's Day playlist celebrating beauty beyond romance, spanning classical, jazz, folk, soul.

1926 was a booming year for jazz. Louis Armstrong was busy revolutionizing improvisation with his Hot Five band. Jelly Roll Morton was laying down essential tracks with his Red Hot Peppers. And, in a ...

Award-winning saxophonist Michael Chapa leads an intimate John Coltrane tribute at Scout Hall in Cape Girardeau this Friday, Jan. 16, blending bebop, ballads and jazz standards. Award-winning ...

John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things isn’t just a jazz standard—it’s a complete transformation of a Broadway classic. This video explores how Coltrane took the cheerful Sound of Music tune and turned it ...

The Doors were more than just another band. That's something that comes through time and time again as you listen to their music today. "It's the drumming, man," John Densmore jokes near the end of a ...

John Coltrane’s 1965 boundary-expanding spiritually-inspired jazz epic A Love Supreme returns in its rare fan favorite original mono mix. It’s long been regarded as Coltrane’s defining statement — a ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The house where jazz legend John Coltrane lived in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion ...

The house where jazz legend John Coltrane lived in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood is on its way to becoming a public cultural space. It has been the subject of tangled legal ownership ...

John William Coltrane was born on Sept. 23, 1926, in Hamlet, NC. By the time of his high school graduation he knew his life’s vocation was to be music. His mother bought him his first alto saxophone ...

John Coltrane's childhood home in High Point, North Carolina. The High Point City Council voted this week to set aside $200,000 for renovating the childhood home of jazz legend John Coltrane. The ...