John Coltrane
Nacimiento : 1926-09-23, Hamlet, North Carolina, USA
Muerte : 1967-07-17
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Dai Miyamoto's life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. A former high school basketball player, Dai picks up a saxophone and begins practicing day and night, determined to become one of the greatest of all time. He leaves his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, but soon finds the life of a professional musician is not for the faint of heart. His passion eventually wins over the cocky but talented pianist Yukinori, and after Dai convinces his friend Shunji to learn the drums, they launch a new jazz trio whose rough sound contains a raw energy that quickly wins attention from local audiences. But what does it take to truly be great?
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Explore la visión detrás del icónico sello discográfico de jazz estadounidense. Desde 1939, los artistas de Blue Note han sido alentados a ampliar los límites creativos en busca de expresiones intransigentes. A través de sesiones de grabación actuales, archivos raros y conversaciones con artistas icónicos de Blue Note, la película revela una perspectiva íntima de un legado que sigue siendo vital en el clima político actual. Paisajes, ciudades, disputas y abrazos, tranquilidad, ritmo agitado, trabajo, autocontrol -duda, alegría, pasión.
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Un relato de la vida del genial músico de jazz John Coltrane (1926-67), un saxofonista dotado, un pensador de talento extraordinario cuya obra, original y vanguardista, ha impactado e influido a personas de todo el mundo. Una historia sobre la capacidad que tiene la música para entretener, inspirar y transformar.
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Un relato de la vida del genial músico de jazz John Coltrane (1926-67), un saxofonista dotado, un pensador de talento extraordinario cuya obra, original y vanguardista, ha impactado e influido a personas de todo el mundo. Una historia sobre la capacidad que tiene la música para entretener, inspirar y transformar.
Kind Of Blue: Celebrating A Masterpiece incorporates material from the 2004 mini-documentary, Made In Heaven, including black-and-white still photography of the recording sessions and the voices of Miles (at the sessions), as well as excerpts of radio interviews with the late Bill Evans.
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John Coltrane provides an epic 95-minute overview of a true giant of 20th-century music. Three separate shows reveal Coltrane's ascending creative arc from hard bop innovator as a member of the Miles Davis Quartet in 1960 to consummate bandleader in 1961 to unrivaled jazz visionary in 1965. This DVD not only features Trane's classic quartet with Elvin Jones (drums), Jimmy Garrison (bass) and McCoy Tyner (piano), but also spotlights him onstage with other jazz legends including Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy and Oscar Peterson. Includes mind-blowing versions of his signature tunes "My Favorite Things" and "Impressions".
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An exemplary television program performance (New York, 1959) with the legendary Miles Davis Quintet featuring John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb and enhanced by the Gil Evans Orchestra.
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Producido con la cooperación de su viuda Alice Coltrane, el documental se centra en el último período del trabajo de Coltrane donde exploró temas de la espiritualidad oriental. Este es un documental retrospectivo sobre la vida y la música del saxofonista John Coltrane, que presenta reminiscencias y entrevistas con sus contemporáneos y compañeros músicos.
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2-minute animation film to music by John Coltrane.
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From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles, "Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme" captures the electrifying energy of improvisational hip-hop--the rarely recorded art form of rhyming spontaneously. Like preachers and jazz solos, freestyles exist only in the moment, a modern-day incarnation of the African-American storytelling tradition. Shot over a period of more than seven years, it is already an underground cult film in the hip-hop world. The film systematically debunks the false image put out by record companies that hip-hop culture is violent or money-obsessed. Instead, it lets real hip-hop artists, known and unknown, weave their story out of a passionate mix of language, politics, and spirituality.
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The World According to John Coltrane is a documentary film about saxophonist John Coltrane
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A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.
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Inspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane, Soul in the Eye marks the beginning of Black Brazilian films. The film is a metaphor for the legacy of culture and survival bestowed by enslaved Africans brought to the American continent and the search for freedom through inner transformation, in a game inspired by concretism.
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To music by John Coltrane, the film mixes quick shots of common objects or still lifes and the fragments of a filmed diary showing some friends on vacation in Torcello, in the Venetian lagoon, walking around reading the newspaper, chatting during lunch, cutting vegetables, playing chess. The shots, taken without a tripod, have a decidedly impressive visual intensity: backlit silhouettes, bright portraits, fruit and shells reminiscent of still lifes. In a convulsive and irrepressible way, with the flow of visual assonances, The little boredom intertwines the pictorial formalism of the compositions with the scenes of everyday life.
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The bold and ferocious harmonic imagination of John Coltrane is laid bare in this concert, captured at the Comblain-La-Tour Festival in Belgium, 1965. Alongside his famed quartet, he delivers a transcendent performance that is marked by the total physicality of the music – four sets of hands moving with restless vigour as vapour literally rises from their shoulders and into the night sky.
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A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
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Jazz Icons: John Coltrane ofrece una descripción épica de 95 minutos de un verdadero gigante de la música del siglo XX. Tres shows diferentes revelan el arco creativo ascendente de Coltrane del innovador hard bop como miembro del Cuarteto Miles Davis en 1960 para consumar el líder de la banda en 1961 al inigualable visionario del jazz en 1965. Este DVD no solo presenta el cuarteto clásico de Trane con Elvin Jones (batería), Jimmy Garrison (bajo) y McCoy Tyner (piano), pero también lo destacan en el escenario con otras leyendas del jazz como Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy y Oscar Peterson. Incluye alucinantes versiones de sus melodías de la firma "Mis cosas favoritas" e "Impresiones".
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Miles playing with sextet and Evans orchestra. A TV program hosted by Robert Herridge, The Robert Herridge Theater from Studio 61, and recorded in New York in 1959. With the legendary Miles Davis Quintet featuring John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb and enhanced by the Gil Evans Orchestra.
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Although some of the production elements may seem a bit dated to modern viewers, The Coltrane Legacy [DVD] (2001) -- which is a remastered edition of the mid-'80s home video program -- remains a discerning compendium of Coltrane in action from three distinct eras of his career.