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 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 ...

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

Archbishop Reverend Franzo King and his wife, Marina King, founded the Saint John ... that comes through John Coltrane and apply it to the liturgy of the ancient Orthodox Church," King said ...

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 ...