Ravi Coltrane
- Price
- $30*
- Genre
- Music
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2025
- DATE
- APR 18
- TIME
- FRI, 8:30 PM
- STREAM
- FRI, 8:30 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 70 minutes, no intermission
* Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & the CalArts faculty and staff
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About
GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer Ravi Coltrane (Music BFA 90) performs a celebratory concert. Joined by Adam Rogers (guitar), Scott Colley (Music BFA 1988) (bass), and Jeff “Tain” Watts (drums), Coltrane will present an evening of improvisation and jazz performance as the capstone of his tenure as the Charlie Haden Artist in Residence at The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts.
Presented in collaboration with the exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum as part of a larger initiative called “The Year of Alice” in partnership with the John & Alice Coltrane Home.
about the artist
Ravi Coltrane is a critically acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. In the course of a twenty-plus-year career, Ravi has worked as a sideman to many, and recorded noteworthy albums for himself and others.
Born in Long Island, the second son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Ravi was named after Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar. He was raised in Los Angeles where his family moved after his father’s death in 1967. His mother, Alice Coltrane, was a significant influence on Ravi and it was he who encouraged Alice Coltrane to return to performance and the recording studio after a long absence. Subsequently, Ravi produced and played on Alice Coltrane’s powerful,Translinear Light, which was released in 2004.
Ravi has released six albums as a leader. His latest, Spirit Fiction, was released in June of 2012 for the Blue Note label. Additional credits include performances as well as recordings with Elvin Jones, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Baron, Steve Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, Matt Garrison, Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Geri Allen, Joanne Brackeem, and The Blue Note 7, among others.
Ravi lives in Brooklyn, NY and maintains a busy schedule touring, recording, and composing. He leads the effort to restore the John Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, Long Island and presides over important reissues of his parent’s recordings.
