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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