RAVI COLTRANE:
Ravi Coltrane is a Grammy™-nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer with a 20+ year career. He has recorded notable albums, performed with legends like McCoy Tyner and Jack DeJohnette, and co-founded the independent label RKM. The son of jazz icons John and Alice Coltrane, Ravi was instrumental in bringing his mother back to music, producing her 2004 album Translinear Light. He has released six albums as a leader, with his latest, Spirit Fiction, on Blue Note. Ravi co-leads the Saxophone Summit with Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman and is actively involved in preserving the John Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, NY.

BRANDEE YOUNGER:
Brandee Younger, a pioneering harpist, became the first Black woman nominated for a Grammy® for Best Instrumental Composition in 2022 and won the 2024 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album with Brand New Life. She has collaborated with artists like Lauryn Hill, Common, and Christian McBride, and her music was featured in Beyoncé's Homecoming. Inspired by Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, Younger expands the harp’s presence in jazz and pop culture. In addition to performing, she is on the faculty at NYU’s Steinhardt School and The New School College of Performing Arts.

PRE-SHOW JAZZ CONVERSATION AT 7PM WITH ASHLEY KAHN INCLUDED FOR ALL TICKET-HOLDERS
Ashley Kahn is a Grammy-winning music historian, author, a prolific writer of album liner notes, a producer of recordings and documentaries, and has authored books on legendary albums (John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue), on a record label (The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records) and co-wrote Carlos Santana’s autobiography The Universal Tone. He has received numerous honors including a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2023. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music and speaks at a variety of music festivals, conservatories, and music programs around the world.