Mal Waldron

Following Fearless Leader and Interplay, Side Steps completes Prestige Records planned three boxed-set series focusing on tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. Read More

Side Steps is Prestige Records' final installment in a project that has seen all of John Coltrane's recordings for the label anthologized. Read More

Raised in Brooklyn and Boston, and a hardcore New Yorker for a good chunk of the '60s, pianist Steve Kuhn now lives removed from the fray, in a still-not-quite-exurban town on the east bank of the Hudson River, one hour by train from Grand Central Station. Read More

Dispensing with critics and historians, the series focused on the musicians: dozens of them telling the story of Jazz in their own words. Read More

The artistic prowess of saxophonist John Coltrane was so expansive and influential - even in his own short lifetime, let alone in the decades since his death - that it's difficult to quantify or differentiate his significance as a leader, a collaborator, a sideman or any other role in the jazz idiom. Read More

This 90-second fragment is a condensation of themes heard throughout the concert. Read More

Jazz musicians have often been called "swinging cats." Read More