Web Directory

» All About Jazz: John Coltrane
   Honors the tenor saxophonist, and features album and book reviews, art, interviews, photos, and album liner notes.
   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/coltrane/index.html

» All Music Guide: John Coltrane
   Biography, and discography with reviews.
   http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=11:s9b1z87ajyv3

» Ascension of an Icon: Marketing of John Coltrane
   Rashied Gabriel's essay on John Coltrane from the Austin Chronicle.
   http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol15/issue22/music.coltrane.html

» DownBeat.com: John Coltrane
   Includes a biography, photo gallery, discography, and three classic Down Beat magazine articles.
   http://www.downbeat.com/artists/window.asp?aid=326&aname=John+Coltrane

» Impulse! Records: John Coltrane
   Official site includes soundclips for every track in Trane's discography, and a biography.
   http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/default.aspx?aid=2660

» Interview with John Fraim, Coltrane Biogrpaher
   An interview with John Fraim, author of "Spirit Catcher, the Life of John Coltrane," at Jerry Jazz Musician.
   http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/linernotes/fraim.html

» John Coltrane - Cosmopolis
   Biography of the co-founder of Free Jazz
   http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo8/coltrane.htm

» John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
   An on-line thesis titled 'John Coltrane, Avant Garde Jazz, and the Evolution of "My Favorite Things"' with bibliography, discography and pictures.
   http://room34.com/?q=node/9

» John Coltrane book author Ashley Kahn
   Ashley Kahn, author of "A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album," discusses Coltrane in an exclusive intervew with Jerry Jazz Musician.
   http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=kahn-als.html

» John Coltrane book chapter excerpt
   "Suite By the Sea" is a chapter excerpted from "The Story of A Love Supreme" by Ashley Kahn.
   http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=kahnsuitesea.html

» John Coltrane photos
   Jazz photographer Lee Tanner's images of John Coltrane, captured in Boston's Jazz Workshop in 1963.
   http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=tanner-jcphotos.html

» John Coltrane: The A Love Supreme Interviews
   Jerry Jazz Musician presents the A Love Supreme Interviews. McCoy Tyner, Joshua Redman, Francis Davis, Nat Hentoff, Ashley Kahn, Gary Giddins and others participate in original interviews about Coltrane and the classic 1964 recording.
   http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=lovesupreme.html

» JohnColtrane.com
   Extensive official Coltrane site includes biography, photographs, licensing information, music and scholarship information.
   http://www.johncoltrane.com/

» Remembering John Coltrane
   Profile by jazz historian and critic Mike Zwerin.
   http://www.culturekiosque.com/jazz/miles/rhemile11.htm

» RollingStone.com: John Coltrane
   Includes a biography, discography, photos, articles, links and message board.
   http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/johncoltrane

» The Art of John Coltrane and Ralph Ellison
   Thesis discusses the Black American Experience through the work of iconic figures saxphonist John Coltrane and Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison.
   http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~wright/music/coltrane-ellison/paper.html

» What Coltrane Wanted
   The legendary saxophonist forsook lyricism for the quest for ecstasy. Article by Edward Strickland from the Atlantic Monthly. [Requires subscription]
   http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/jazz/strickla.htm