Ravi Coltrane is a critically acclaimed saxophonist, composer, bandleader, producer and founder of the independent record company RKM Music. He won’t come right out and say that he is the son of the iconic John Coltrane — but in an interview, he does prompt, “Ask me whatever you’d like.” At that moment, family ties don’t seem to matter. “If our generation simply copycats the greats of the past, that’s not real,” he has said. “It’s important to be authentic and make music that means something now. It’s exciting to be on the journey.”
That journey guides him to Blues Alley this Saturday and Sunday where he will play with a quartet he has recently assembled: a group of musicians he holds in the highest regard.
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