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Next month, John Coltrane‘s label, Impulse!/Ume, will release Blue World, a new album by the legendary saxophonist. Recorded in 1964 and largely unreleased until now, the 37-minute session was intended as a soundtrack for Le chat dans le sac (“The Cat in the Bag”), a film by the Quebecois director …

Kenny G almost definitely had a better Valentine’s Day than you this year — at least if your idea of a romantic date involves performing at Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West‘s California home.“I’m having abusy Valentine’s Day,” says the sax man, 62, whenRolling Stonereaches him later that evening. “Busier …

Jazz, like many other genres, has a long history with the Beatles‘ songbook. Since the Sixties, artists from Count Basie to Medeski Martin & Wood have covered a wide array of Fab Four tunes. A new release, A Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper, brings this concept into the …

For some, Ken Burns’ 2001 PBS series Jazz was a definitive, open-and-shut take on its subject, as comprehensive a portrait of the genre as one could hope for. For others, the series was a major slight. As Tom Surgal, director of the new doc Fire Musicput it in a 2015 …

Emanon, a full-length graphic novel co-written by Wayne Shorter and included with his new album of the same name, tells the story of a “rogue philosopher” who travels between worlds, spreading a message of truth and empowerment. For much of his 60-plus-year career, Shorter has been on an analogous mission. …