John Coltrane
Know for: Acting
Born: 1926-09-23
Place of birth: Hamlet, North Carolina, USA
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John Coltrane Quartet: Live in Liège (1965)
The bold and ferocious harmonic imagination of John Coltrane is laid bare in this concert, captured at the Comblain-La-Tour Festival in Belgium,...
John Coltrane Four Tenors (2002)
Four giants of the tenor saxophone -- including the legendary John Coltrane -- are featured in this collection of rare performances recorded in the...
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)
From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles, "Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme" captures the electrifying energy of improvisational...
John Coltrane - Impressions Of Coltrane (2007)
Miles Davis: The Cool Jazz Sound (2005)
An exemplary television program performance (New York, 1959) with the legendary Miles Davis Quintet featuring John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul...
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (2008)
Kind Of Blue: Celebrating A Masterpiece incorporates material from the 2004 mini-documentary, Made In Heaven, including black-and-white still...
The World According to John Coltrane (1990)
The World According to John Coltrane is a documentary film about saxophonist John Coltrane
The Sound of Miles Davis (1959)
Miles playing with sextet and Evans orchestra. A TV program hosted by Robert Herridge, The Robert Herridge Theater from Studio 61, and recorded in...
Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65 (2007)
John Coltrane provides an epic 95-minute overview of a true giant of 20th-century music. Three separate shows reveal Coltrane's ascending creative...
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
John Coltrane: The Coltrane Legacy (1970)
Although some of the production elements may seem a bit dated to modern viewers, The Coltrane Legacy [DVD] (2001) -- which is a remastered edition of...
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with...
Chasing Trane (2017)
An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose...
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2019)
Explore the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative boundaries in...
John Coltrane – Antibes/Baden Baden/San Francisco (2008)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became...
Giant Steps (2001)
2-minute animation film to music by John Coltrane.
La Piccola Noia (1966)
To music by John Coltrane, the film mixes quick shots of common objects or still lifes and the fragments of a filmed diary showing some friends on...
Blue Giant (2023)
High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown...
The Cat in the Bag (1964)
A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
Soul in the Eye (1973)
Inspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane, Soul in the Eye marks the beginning of Black...
Chasing Trane (2017)
An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose...