Ravi Coltrane

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McCoy Tyner and Ravi Coltrane; Newport Jazz Festival; 2005

Ravi Coltrane (* 6. August 1965 in Huntington , Long Iceland , New York ) is an American jazz - saxophonist .

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Coltrane grew up in a musical family; his parents, the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and the jazz pianist Alice Coltrane , named him after the Indian musician Ravi Shankar . In his childhood he played in a quartet with his mother and brothers John and Oran .

After training at the California Institute of the Arts , he initially belonged to Steve Coleman's group , but also performed with Geri Allen , Dwayne Dolphin , Kenny Barron , McCoy Tyner , Pharoah Sanders , Herbie Hancock , Carlos Santana , Stanley Clarke , Branford Marsalis , Carola Gray or Torsten de Winkel . Occasionally he also played with his mother Alice Coltrane; together with Al Jarreau , Earl Klugh and George Duke he toured India in 2005.

In 1997 he released his first own album , Moving Pictures , in which drummer Jeff Tain Watts , bassist Lonnie Plaxico and pianist Michael Cain were involved. Coltrane recorded his next album, From the Round Box (2000), with pianist Geri Allen, trumpeter Ralph Alessi , bassist James Genus and drummer Eric Harland . On the next albums Mad 6 (2002) and In Flux (2005) he worked with bassist Drew Gress , pianist Luis Perdomo and drummer EJ Strickland . He also performed with his quartet in 2004 at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival . Ben Ratliff's album Spirit Fiction ( Blue Note , 2012, with Geri Allen and Luis Perdomo) was one of the best jazz albums of 2012. The album In Movement followed in 2016 , which he recorded in a trio with Jack DeJohnette and Matthew Garrison and gave him the third nomination for a Grammy for best improvised jazz solo. Ravi Coltrane supervised the release of the album Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (2018), with recordings of his father from 1963 believed to be lost.

According to the judgment of the authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton , Ravi Coltrane is stylistically more reminiscent of Joe Henderson and Dexter Gordon than of his father.

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  1. ↑ Ben Ratliff: Asking Questions and Raising Stakes - Ben Ratliff's Top 10 Albums of 2012 in The New York Times
  2. ↑ entry (grammy.com)
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SURNAME Coltrane, Ravi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntington , New York