Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

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Torin F @nonlinearize 04/23/2024 CHASING TRANE thoughtfully illuminates John Coltrane's growth and musical development, and skillfully contextualizes the more challenging music of his later years, presenting a straightforward and sympathetic portrait of a true jazz legend. See more 01/17/2021 This felt like your standard documentary and never really captured my full attention despite being informative and sprinkled with interesting personal anecdotes. The actual footage of Coltrane performances and the first person accounts from family and friends were where this doc was strongest. I never like when a doc uses an unrelated famous person's voice, in this case Denzel Washington, to speak the words of the subject of the documentary and would just prefer an anonymous sounding voice in the absence of Coltranes. John Densmore, the Doors drummer, easily wins the award for biggest Coltrane fan. See more 12/25/2017 really well done and brought me back to my early days when I studied this man's work ethic, spirituality, and completely unique approach. Perhaps this will be too serious & joyless for a newbie but hang in there and deeply listen to the words.to the music. to the higher calling. See more 11/26/2017 Not as detailed as I was hoping. Good place to start for the beginner. See more 07/13/2017 I loved it. First of all was the constant music of Coltrane playing throughout the film. I enjoyed the still photos (why do critics have so much trouble with them?) the newsreels of the civil rights events, the interviews with the children. There was some beautiful animation and interviews with jazz greats like Sonny Rollins and Benny Golson, and of course the many clips of studio recording sessions. The music is great , the man was great, he loved and was loved, what more do we need? I thought the treatment of his death was very discreet, sparing us the suffering of so great a loss. A beautiful film! See more 06/24/2017 Great film, shows a lot of unseen concert footage & pictures of Coltrane. See more Read all reviews

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