Coltrane Home Gets $1 Million Grant From Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1-million grant to the historic John  and Alice Coltrane Home in Dix Hills. The multi-year grant will continue the preservation of the home of the influential musicians, increase organizational capacity, expand programmatic offerings and allow the hiring Read More …

Coltrane Home Named a National Treasure

  The Dix Hills home of John Coltrane, the pioneering jazz musician and composer, and his wife, Alice, an accomplished and influential musician and spiritual leader, was recently named a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. John Coltrane was revolutionizing the jazz world Read More …

Coltrane Day to be Filled With Celebration of Music

Saturday is Coltrane Day, with jam sessions, jazz, rap, funk electronic music, food, environmental exhibits, food and beer, and family activities. The legendary blues musician John Coltrane and his wife, jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, lived in Dix Hills until his death in 1967. He is Read More …

Coltrane Home Earns African-American Heritage Grant from National Trust

The Coltrane Home in Dix Hills has been awarded a grant from the National Trust’s new African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. The grant recognizing the site where the late iconic jazz musician, saxophonist John Coltrane, and his wife, pianist Alice Coltrane,  lived in the 1960s Read More …