Special Series
September 2nd – December 9th, 2026
Seventeen nights · Kissa Kissa, 667 Franklin Avenue, Crown Heights
John Coltrane would have turned one hundred this year. Kissa Kissa marks it by playing the records on their own anniversaries, front to back, on the house system. Seventeen nights from September to December. Every night is free and open, no cover.
Every night is free and open to the public. No cover, no ticket.
- Meditations, in Sequence7:00 PM · the new Verve Vault reissue, heard in Impulse! chronology
- Trane with the Miles Davis Quintetfrom 5:30 PM · 70th anniversary of the ‘Round About Midnight session
- Blue Train: The Complete Masters7:00 PM · 69th anniversary of the session
- Centennial Celebration7:00 PM · one hundred years to the day
- Coltrane & Friendsfrom 5:30 PM · 64th anniversary of the Duke Ellington & John Coltrane date
- A Love Supreme, Live in Seattlefrom 5:30 PM · 61st anniversary of the Seattle performance
- Live at Birdland — advance listen7:00 PM · three days before the reissue arrives
- Three Ways Through the Same Tunefrom 5:30 PM · “My Favorite Things” at 66
- The Village Vanguard, 1961 — night one7:00 PM · four nights, played in performance order
- The Village Vanguard, 1961 — night two7:00 PM · the run continues in performance order
- The Village Vanguard, 1961 — night three7:00 PM · the run continues in performance order
- The Tiberi Tapes — advance listen7:00 PM · a document, not an audiophile pressing, and that is the point
- The Village Vanguard, 1961 — night four7:00 PM · the closing night of the run
- Journey, Deeply6:00 PM · Alice Coltrane at Dix Hills, 56 years on
- “Alabama” at 63from 5:30 PM · featured listen: Live at Birdland
- Meditations, sixty-one years on7:00 PM · a quieter return to the record we opened with
- A Love Supreme, at the session7:00 PM · 62 years to the day · season finale