A performance that marked John Coltrane’s decisive embrace of the avant-garde, 'Ascension' is joining the Verve Vault series.

1926 was a booming year for jazz. Louis Armstrong was busy revolutionizing improvisation with his Hot Five band. Jelly Roll Morton was laying down essential tracks with his Red Hot Peppers. And, in a ...

Consider this show a dessert for the Impulse! main course that took place last spring, when various iconic discs on the jazz imprint were essayed anew. ‘Trane’s collective and clarion fits into that ...

Today marks what would have been jazz giant John Coltrane's 94th birthday. Two years before his untimely death from liver cancer in 1967, a young San Francisco couple heard him play — and their ...