Their house of worship — known today as the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church — has survived decades of change in a gentrifying city, while making a few notable revisions to ...

In 1982, the African Orthodox Church canonized Coltrane as the patron saint of the newly renamed Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, which is still its official name today ...

If you are one of those music lovers who believes people can find religion in jazz, perhaps the Church of John Coltrane is for you. The church, whose full name is the Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane ...

The St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, a uniquely San Franciscan storefront ministry dedicated to the music and preachings of the soulful sax man, is facing eviction and may be gone as ...

The St. John Will I Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church is a resident company with Magic Theatre at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture. St. John Coltrane Church offers services at 12:00 p.m ...

Chuck Stewart Photography, LLC/Fireball Entertainment Group Supported by By M.H. Miller THE SAINT JOHN Coltrane Church in San Francisco — a branch of the African Orthodox Church, where the jazz ...

He's the leader of the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. At his church, they praise God through the music of the late saxophonist John Coltrane's music, who they consider to be a saint.

Just before noon on a recent Sunday, there barely was room to breathe — let alone sit — during the prayer service at St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. By half past 12, crowds were ...

The leader of a San Francisco clergy is asking the public for help locating a saxophone that for more than five decades has ...

In April of 1957 John Coltrane was in a dark place. Miles Davis had just kicked him out of the biggest jazz group in the country for his “junkie s—,” a struggle with heroin and alcohol ...

A San Francisco church centered around jazz great John Coltrane, stung by the theft of a saxophone linked to its namesake ...