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About Ravi Coltrane
Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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Ravi Coltrane

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Ravi Coltrane- tenor and soprano saxophonist, bandleader, and composer - has fronted a variety of jazz lineups, recorded critically-hailed albums as leader, produced recordings by other artists - including his mother, worked as sideman for jazz luminaries, overseen important jazz reissues, and founded an independent record label. Seventeen years since finding his life's path, it seems music was Ravi's destiny from the outset. Born the second son of John and Alice Coltrane in 1965 in Long Island, New York and raised in the Los Angeles area, he was named after Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar
Orange Afternoons

By Dave Douglas
Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Gulf; Valori Bollati; Solato; Orologi; Orange Afternoons; Frontier Justice.
Friday - LIVE at the Jazz Standard

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Jazz Standard; I'm Fprever Blowing Bubbles; Over The Rainbow; Popsicle Illusion; Lisa;
Lucky Charm; Count Down;
Wave.
Cindy Blackman Santana: Rhythmic And Musical Force

by R.J. DeLuke
It's the 1980s in New York City. It's the place to be for musicians looking to make a name for themselves with hopes of finding steady gigs and recording dates. Drummer Cindy Blackman (long before her marriage to Carlos Santana) is there, fresh out of Berklee College of Music. She's there to meet people, ...
Quincy Jones, Claire Daly, Bob Mintzer & Nanny Assis

by Joe Dimino
Off a long-awaited album by one of the most ebullient cats in jazz, we start the 817th Episode of Neon Jazz with a track from Nanny Assis's Rovanio. From there, we remain in a bossa nova groove with Quincy Jones before we delve into a trove of new tunes from the likes of Ethan Cohn, Michael ...
Spoleto Festival USA 2023

by Perry Tannenbaum
Spoleto Festival USA Queen Street Playhouse, Sottile Theatre, TD Arena Charleston, SC May 26 to June 11, 2023 Respect for the elders in the jazz lineup of this year's Spoleto Festival USA jazz was gracefully counterbalanced by a hearty welcome to newer generations. It only felt fleetingly like the closing of ...
The Amazing John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy At The Gate

by Chris May
The Impulse! label has released several outstanding John Coltrane live albums since 2000. With the exception of the latest, the sensational John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy: Evenings At The Village Gate (2023), each was recorded in 1965, the year when Coltrane's classic quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, was at ...
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2023

by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, New York June 25-26, 2023 It seems routine over more than four decades to say that this year's" edition of Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival was a good one. Maybe you said it last year, maybe you'll say it next year.
Brandee Younger: I'm Done Running From The Harp Police

by Leo Sidran
When it comes to instruments that are not easily designed for improvising soloists, there is perhaps none more difficult to handle than the harp. And when it comes to contemporary jazz harpists, there is perhaps none more influential in this moment than Brandee Younger. From the very beginning, as a young music student growing ...
Brandee Younger Trio at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
Brandee Younger Trio Jazz Alley Seattle, WA June 6, 2023 The community of innovative and groundbreaking harpists is a small one. All of these visionaries have taken the large, but delicate instrument out of the context of European classical music, and ventured into a variety of genres, most notably, post-bop ...