The Free Jazz Collective

John Coltrane Memorial in Hamlet, N.C. Photographer unknown. By Stuart Broomer If I can write anything meaningful about the music of Jo...

John Coltrane - One Down, One Up: Live At the Half Note (recorded 1965, released 2005), My Favorite Things: Coltrane At Newport  (reco...

John Coltrane – The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse, 1965) By Dan Sorrells  Most of my listening hours are spent on freely improvised ...

John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard  (Impulse, 1997)  By Kenneth Blanchard There are certain recordings t...

DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE - s/t (Impulse!, 1963) By  Ferruccio Martinotti Sunday morning. We weren't even looking through...

By Paul Acquaro  John Coltrane - Olé (Atlantic, 1961)   In the mid-1990s I had just graduated from undergrad with a degree in Journal...

By Nuno Catarino  Like many others, my gateway into the Coltrane universe was the inevitable Blue Train , a 1997 CD reissue, with the co...

By Richard Blute  The Red Garland Quintet Featuring John Coltrane and Donald Byrd - Soul Junction (Prestige, 1960) Culinary ...

As you are likely well aware, this week marks the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane's birth and writers and friends of the Free Jazz Bl...

By Eyal Hareuveni Pendulum is a singular piano trio featuring French pianist Benoît Delbecq with Danish double bass player Jon...