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 ...

The St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church will leave its storefront sanctuary on Fillmore Street at the end of April, ending a long eviction fight, the church has confirmed. In an agreement ...

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 ...

Eight months before John ... saint.” At a church in San Francisco, he is just that. In the 1980s, the saxophonist was venerated and canonized by a congregation affiliated with the African ...

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 ...

“St. John Coltrane referred ... they can about living from Coltrane’s life and writing and music,” Baham said. The church aligned itself with the African Orthodox Church, a denomination ...

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 ...

Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A... John Coltrane composed these words in December ...