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SUMMARY:Ravi Coltrane: Coltrane Centennial
LOCATION:UC Theatre\, 2036 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA 94704
DESCRIPTION:“Style informed by tradition but not encumbered by it” — 
 Philadelphia City Paper “Powerful music. It resisted premade frames and 
 made its own.” — The New York Times “A worthy heir to his father\, j
 azz legend John Coltrane” — The Telegraph “Embracing jazz’s past o
 nly as a means to communicate his own modern-day voice.” — Okayplayer 
 Just days before John Coltrane would have turned 100 his oldest surviving 
 son\, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane\, presents a blazing young band to mark th
 e milestone. While Ravi spent the first quarter century of his career focu
 sing on acquiring a diverse array of experience as a sideman and then honi
 ng his own lustrous\, harmonically ambiguous compositions\, he’s taken u
 p the family mantle in recent years. With a variety of ensembles\, project
 s and initiatives on and off the bandstand\, he’s championed the legacy 
 of his parents (including with his 2025 stint as an SFJAZZ Resident Artist
 ic Director). For this celebration he performs with trumpeter Jonathan Fin
 layson\, a longtime collaborator who graduated from Berkeley High and spen
 t years touring and recording with alto sax great and MBASE conceptualist 
 Steve Coleman. A teenage prodigy\, Israeli pianist/keyboardist Gadi Lehavi
  made his Village Vanguard debut with Ravi at 15. Now 30\, he’s more tha
 n lived up to his enormous potential\, playing with consummate technique a
 nd capacious imagination. Powering the quartet is Bay Area-reared drum sen
 sation Elé Howell\, 28\, a supremely musical accompanist who gained natio
 nal attention when Coltrane started hiring him in 2021 for various project
 s\, including Cosmic Music: Revisiting the Music of John and Alice Coltran
 e. Though John Coltrane ascended in 1967 at the age of 40\, his presence c
 ontinues to illuminate new directors for exploration.\n\nhttps://www.theuc
 theatre.org/shows/ravi-coltrane-coltrane-centennial-celebration-19-sep
URL:https://www.theuctheatre.org/shows/ravi-coltrane-coltrane-centennial-ce
 lebration-19-sep
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