Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the St. John Coltrane Church is looking past the battles it's faced in a constantly-changing and gentrifying San Francisco, determined to make its institution into ...

Eight months before John Coltrane died, he performed a concert at Temple University. During the concert, the legendary jazz musician put down his horn and banged his fists against his chest. He ...

The St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, a uniquely San Franciscan storefront ministry dedicated to the music and preachings of the soulful sax man, is facing eviction and may be gone as soon as ...

Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A... John Coltrane composed these words in December 1964, ...

Sundays at the St. John Coltrane Church usually start with Rev. Mother Marina King gently humming into a microphone. Archbishop Franzo King, in an all black frock with a red and gold shawl, joins in ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A sudden rain barraged the Fillmore District. People were ducking its assault, racing past the church of St. John Coltrane without a glance. It did not look good for Sunday services.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Archbishop Franzo King is getting ready for Monday's celebration. He's the leader of the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. At his church, they praise God through the ...

In April of 1957 John Coltrane was in a dark place. Miles Davis had just kicked him out of the biggest jazz group in the country for his “junkie s—,” a struggle with heroin and alcohol abuse that ...

For a long period of my life, sometime after I stopped attending Christian church services, I made it a ritual to listen to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme in its entirety on Sunday afternoons. I’m not ...

John Coltrane never stopped wondering what he wanted from music, and never stopped pushing the boundaries. Trane genuinely strove to be saintly in his devotion to the divine, creating a body of deeply ...