Nightlife Highlights: Ravi Coltrane Quartet
by Peter Aaron, June 28, 2011
August 5. Despite the pressures of family lineage (yes, he’s the son of groundbreakers John and Alice Coltrane), saxophonist Ravi Coltrane has done well making his own way in jazz, choosing wisely, perhaps, to pursue a style that owes more to in-the-pocket hard-bop players like Joe Henderson than the ultratranscendent work of his parents. But by no means does that mean he’s been lazy: 2009’s
Blending Times, his fifth album, has been roundly hailed for its understated and deeply personal atmospherics. Which should certainly play extremely well in the Belleayre Music Festival’s mountaintop setting. (K. D. Lang croons July 3; Jimmy Cobb celebrates 50 years of Kinda Blue August 6.) 8pm. $233 lawn to $327 platinum. Highmount. (800) 942-6904, ext. 1344;
www.belleayremusic.org.
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