Jazz legend John Coltrane's Philadelphia house to become a cultural heritage site

NPR | By Daniel Ofman,

Joel Rose

Published September 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM EDT

On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.

Daniel Ofman

Joel Rose

Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.

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