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Ravi Coltrane Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert

Artistic legacy, evolution and studied ease coalesced at this Tiny Desk Concert, with Coltrane offering four interpretations of his and others' works.
Ravi Coltrane performs a Tiny Desk Concert on May 4, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

Yes, is the son of the , one of the most famous and important jazz saxophonists and composers of all time. He's also the son of multi-instrumentalist, composer and spiritual leader . (In fact, all members of the band here are performing artists in; Adam Rogers parents performed on Broadway and Yunior Terry is Yosvany Terri's brother, both heirs to Cuban music royalty.) But pedigree is not what makes him (or them) special. It's the ability to draw on ideology and theory from the past and give already-great music the room to transform. As Coltrane told NPR :

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