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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A corner in the church of Saint John Coltrane. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea. For almost sixty years, His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King has been leading what he calls “sound baptisms” at the ...

They gathered one afternoon in late October of 1960, at the Atlantic Records studios in a nondescript building at 234 West 56th Street in New York: pianist McCoy Tyner, just 21, a prodigy from ...

Piano, bass, and drums took center stage on March 21 at Symphony Hall, encircled by the traditional string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After a brief ...

Trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is well acquainted with prestigious stages, from the Metropolitan Opera to the Monterey Jazz Festival. At the beginning of February, however, he returned to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A San Francisco church leader is asking for the public's help in recovering a stolen saxophone -- an instrument that has been a vital part of the community for more than 50 ...

Musical virtuoso, record executive, wife, and mother. Then widow. Then spiritual guru. Then creative innovator. Then author. Then all of that and more. Alice Coltrane (1937–2007) mourned the ...