The World According To John Coltrane
The World According To John Coltrane - 2003
Technical info
- Regions: 2
- Disc number: 1
- Production year: 1993
- Release year: 2003
- Runtime: 59 Minutes
- Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
- Package: Dvd Case
- Screen ratios: Fullscreen (4:3)
- Support: DVD: Single side, single layer
- Colour: Colour
- Compilation: No
- Concert: Yes
- Video: No
- Documentary: Yes
- Former rent: No
- Used: No
- UK Import
Audio tracks
- English - Dolby Digital 5.1
- English - Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
The World According To John Coltrane
This documentary video covers the life of this jazz saxophonist from his roots in the black church to his rhythm and blues performances.
The World According to John Coltrane is a great tribute on DVD to this outstanding saxophonist who, with Miles Davis in particular, broke so many boundaries of jazz, and proved himself the worthiest successor to the Bird, Charlie Parker.
The program is short, clocking in at just under an hour. But it's packed with personal reminiscences from many of the musicians who played with him, including his pianist-wife Alice Coltrane. And though there are only a few musical tracks, they are incandescent - especially Giant Steps performed with Miles Davis, and Coltrane's later Reverend King Alabama, a tribute to Martin Luther King, recorded long after Coltrane had left Miles Davis to go his own way.
There's historic footage of Coltrane in his earliest performing years with the beatnik-bebop king Dizzy Gillespie, and of Coltrane bringing into his group other rule-breaking saxophonists including the very young Eric Dolphy.
Tracklist
- A Love Supreme
- Alabama
- Blue Monk
- Dahorney Dance
- Dear Lord
- Eight Miles High
- Giant Steps
- Gospel Song 1
- Gospel Song 2
- Hot House
- Impressions
- Impressions 2
- India
- Koko
- Moroccan Folk Song
- My Favorite Things
- My Favorite Things 2
- Naima
- Number One
- Raga Bhimpalisi
- Roscoe In Morocco
- Round Midnight
- So What
- Things To Come
Features
- Direct Scene Access
- Interactive Menu
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