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Ravi Coltrane’s Tour Includes Westminster Performance
Jazz saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, the second son of legendary jazz musicians John and Alice Coltrane, gave a performance at Westminster April 3 as a part of the Graham Gund ’59 Visiting Artist Series. Performing with him were Adam Rogers on the guitar, Nate Smith on the drums and Matt Brewer on the upright bass.
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Ravi’s father (who recorded the landmark “Blue Train” for Blue Note in 1957) died when Ravi was 2. Alice, a renowned composer and pianist, raised Ravi on the West Coast and proved a strong role model in her own right. Ravi had the honor of producing and playing on her “Translinear Light,” released three years prior to her death in 2007.
A move back east to New York and pivotal stints with Elvin Jones, Wallace Roney and Steve Coleman led Ravi to begin asserting himself as a leader in the mid 1990s. His CDs include “Moving Pictures,” “From the Round Box,” “Mad 6,” “In Flux,” “Blending Times” and “Spirit Fiction.” He also has appeared as a sideman with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, Jeff “Tain” Watts, and Flying Lotus (a.k.a. Steven Ellison, Ravi’s cousin), and as a co-leader of the Saxophone Summit with Lovano and Dave Liebman.
During their Westminster performance, the quartet played pieces that Ravi and others had composed. Ravi’s tour continues in April and May in Germany, Poland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and France.
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