Live musical performances are usually freer than those recorded in studios, for reasons having to do with the peculiar psychology of many performing artists. In public, where what’s played is what’s ...

Eight months before he died, John Coltrane played a gig at Temple University. It was recorded by the radio station but has only been heard in partial, poor-quality bootlegs until this year, when it ...

American jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane photographed in 1960. Evening Standard/Getty Images Losing Coltrane at such a relatively young age, on July 17, 1967, was one of the biggest crimes ...