Laurin Talese at ColtraneJazzFest.com Laurin Talese, the 2018 winner of the Sarah Vaughan Vocal Competition will perform with the North Carolina Coltrane All-Star Band under the direction of trumpeter and educator Mondre Moffett for the 9th Annual John Coltrane...
Youth Jazz Workshop at ColtraneJazzFest.com It’s a tradition. The John Coltrane Youth Jazz Workshop opens the Coltrane Jazzfest every year. For the 9th annual festival kickoff, they will perform on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. The performing group is a result of the...
Jackie Venson at ColtraneJazzFest.com Jackie Venson started playing the guitar when she was a senior at Berklee College of Music. Until then she had studied and trained as a classical pianist. Forming her own blues band in 2013, Venson has become a rising star for...
Michelle Coltrane at ColtraneJazzFest.com Vocalist Michelle Coltrane is the daughter of jazz pianist Alice Coltrane who advanced the harp as an instrument of the genre and broke new ground by doing so. Her step-father was saxophone, composer and jazz icon, John...
Jazzmeia Horn at ColtraneJazzFest.com Jazzmeia Horn, the strongest vocalist to emerge on the jazz scene in some time, will perform Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018 for the 8th Annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival. Horn’s 2017 debut release A SOCIAL CALL...
Dianne Reeves at ColtraneJazzFest.com Jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves will headline the 8th Annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. The five-time Grammy Award winner is considered the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world as a...