On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones assembled at Englewood Cliffs, N.J.’s Van Gelder Studio. That one-day session became a ...
To celebrate a seminal composition and performance — one we might need now more than ever — we ask dozens of sax players what Coltrane’s masterpiece means to them. They say Rome wasn’t built in a day.