‘Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary’ Brings the Jazz Legend to Life
On "This Is Happening," John Scheinfeld discusses his new film about the revered American saxophonist and composer.
The cover for "Blue Trane," John Coltrane's famous album from 1958. (Jason Hickey / CC BY-SA 2.0)
John Coltrane died (of liver cancer) at the age of 40 in 1967, but people still talk in reverential terms about his life and music. “Anything John plays, anything John writes, is beyond—unquestionably beyond,” musician Sonny Rollins said of the the legendary American jazz saxophonist and composer in “Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary,” a new film by John Scheinfeld that opened Friday.
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