Jazz
John Coltrane is easily one of the key innovators, visionaries, and virtuosos of American Jazz. Coltrane's spiritually influenced and challenging music not only turned the jazz world upside down in the 1960s, but directly impacted all modern music for decades to follow. It is this relationship between music and spirituality that is the core of John Coltrane: The World According to John Coltrane. Produced with his wife's cooperation, The World According to John Coltrane is truly a heartfelt documentary on his work and influence on the music community. The bulk of the 60-minute documentary focuses on Coltrane's eastern spirituality/musical direction in the 1960s as told through the voices of friends, fellow musicians, and admirers. Perhaps the most impressive aspects of this documentary are its live footage clips. Listening to Coltrane is extremely powerful, but watching him pour his heart and soul into his sax is absolutely awe-inspiring. These clips will leave you yearning to see the entire performances, unedited. Unfortunately, this is the DVD's one fault; no extras of the performances in their entirety. Oh well. A fan can dream. --Rob Bracco
From the Back Cover
John Coltrane was the most innovative and influential jazz saxophonist of the 1960s. The World According to John Coltrane shows he was that, and more--much more. The World According to John Coltrane traces John Coltrane's musical growth from his roots in the black church and rhythm and blues through his forty years of life and beyond, culminating in a musical meeting between Art Ensemble of Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and dervish musicians in Morocco's Western Sahara desert filmed in 1990.
The film also includes extensive performance footage of Coltrane some of which has never before been seen or heard. Blistering concert performances of "My Favorite Things" and "Naima," filmed in Europe, are among the film's discoveries. Of great interest to Coltrane scholars will be the recording of John Coltrane while in the Navy (1947) playing the alto saxophone (on Charlie Parker's "Koko")--by far the earliest recording of the saxophonist that has yet surfaced.
The World According to John Coltrane is the first documentary on John Coltrane to be made with the full cooperation of Alice Coltrane. The relationship between his music and his study of Eastern spirituality is clarified by both Alice and La Monte Young. While the former clearly emphasizes her late husband's motivations and the relationship of his spiritual search to the ferment of the sixties, Young offers insights into Eastern musical theory and Western psycho acoustics that provide solid basis for understanding the hypnotic quality so often noted in Coltrane's music.
The World According to John Coltrane is a multifaceted portrait of John Coltrane's music and spirit, and of the dimension of his impact, that ignores both conventional music categories and the conventions of the standard music documentary.
Today we live in a world of sound that is very much a world according to John Coltrane.
Special Guest Artist: Roscoe Mitchell. Alos Rashied Ali, Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Heath, Wayne Shorter, La Monte Young, Alice Coltrane, and members of the Aissaqua Brotherhood. Contains rare archival clips from the Ralph J. Gleason Jazz Casual Collection.
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Features "A Love Supreme," "Blue Monk," "Things To Come," "My Favorite Things," "Eight Miles High" and many more! Features include instant song access, full montion interactive menus and a DVD-ROM web link.
An in depth look at Johnny Coltrane ... Full Descriptionand his music, enabling viewers to feel the impact of live, uninterrupted performances of "My Favorite Things" and more, along with Coltrane and Miles Davis together on "So What." First in a new BMG series.
The program traces the innovative, unbelievably influential jazz master John Coltrane's musical growth from his roots in the black church and in rhythm and blues through his forty years of life and beyond. Through rare live footage, this segment of the MASTERS OF AMERICAN MUSIC series paints an in-depth portrait of a man behind a myth.
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Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader John Coltrane has been almost as popular in death as he was during his lifetime. The prolific jazzman passed away at 40, but left a legacy of influential musical work. The World According to John Coltrane is one of the few documentaries to feature the background of this famous player. Directed by Robert Palmer, the hour-long release delves into Coltrane's beginnings starting with his childhood in North Carolina. It also showcases some live performances including the songs "My Favorite Things," "So What," and "Naima." Narration is provided by close friends and peers like Roscoe Mitchell and La Monte Young. Having recorded with masters Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Ornette Coleman, Coltrane held his own and even surpassed the popularity of many of his contemporaries.
By Sarah Ing, All Movie Guide.
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