*PBS kicks off its new season of Independent Lens this month with the documentary “Chasing Trane,” a definitive look at boundary-shattering jazz legend John Coltrane, from writer/director John ...

Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane (1926-1967) is revered as a musical god by jazz musicians as well as jazz and world music fans. I would guess that just about everybody who loves music knows of ...

Jazz musician John Coltrane gave no television interviews during his 20-year career and no more than a handful of radio interviews. So in putting together his documentary “Chasing Trane,” filmmaker ...

“You can’t describe music with words,” the great Sonny Rollins observes in John Scheinfeld’s survey-course-brisk docu-dip into the art and life of John Coltrane. As if seeking to prove Rollins right, ...

This sounds like too good of a documentary to miss out on. Coltrane's story is arguably one of the most interesting out of the jazz musicians that he rose to prominence alongside of, overcoming drug ...

In "Chasing the Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary," documentarian John Scheinfeld shows that the music of one of jazz's most experimental saxophone players still speaks to audiences today. Born in ...

This documentary about John Coltrane provides a fine overview of his career for the uninitiated and plenty of lesser-known information for fans. As one of the latter, I was most interested in the ...