The Tender Side of John Coltrane

Coltrane’s intensity is legendary, but his playing on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman shows how much he could say with a ballad. Dianne Reeves and Branford Marsalis revisit that music in a new recording, and this interview explores what drew them to it. For a listening companion, try Coltrane and Hartman’s “My One and Only Love.”
Read the interview in the Financial Times