John Coltrane

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?

Explore the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative boundaries in search of uncompromising expressions. Through current recording sessions, rare archive and conversations with iconic Blue Note artists, the film reveals an intimate perspective of a legacy that continues to be vital in today’s political climate.

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose original, avant-garde work has impacted and influenced people all over the world. A story about music's ability to entertain, inspire and transform.

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose original, avant-garde work has impacted and influenced people all over the world. A story about music's ability to entertain, inspire and transform.

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.

Jazz Icons: John Coltrane nos dá uma visão geral épico de 95 minutos de um verdadeiro gigante da música do século 20. Três shows separados revelam a trajetória criativa de Coltrane. De inovador hard bop membro do Miles Davis Quartet em 1960, para consumado bandleader em 1961 e chegando ao incomparável visionário do jazz em 1965. Este DVD não só apresenta quarteto clássico de Trane com Elvin Jones (bateria), Jimmy Garrison (baixo) e McCoy Tyner (piano), mas também o destaca no palco com outras lendas do jazz, incluindo Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy e Oscar Peterson. Inclui versões alucinantes de suas marcantes músicas "My Favorite Things" e "Impressions".

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.

Este documentário faz uma retrospectiva da vida e música do saxofonista de jazz John Coltrane, apresentando reminiscências e entrevistas com seus contemporâneos e músicos companheiros. Produzido em cooperação com sua viúva, Alice Coltrane, o documentário foca no período final do trabalho de Coltrane no qual ele explora temas da espiritualidade oriental.

2-minute animation film to music by John Coltrane.

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.

The World According to John Coltrane is a documentary film about saxophonist John Coltrane

O cineasta Bruce Ricker não podia acreditar na sua sorte. As imagens filmadas por Michael e Christian Blackwood sobre o compositor e pianista de jazz moderno, Thelonious Monk, em 1968, estavam em excelente estado. Incluindo cenas de Monk fora dos palcos. Os rolos estavam, Ricker disse, "apenas lá, esperando para serem descobertos e revelados ao mundo". aaRicker, como produtor, junta-se a diretora Charlotte Zwerin ("Gimme Shelter"), ao produtor executivo Clint Eastwood e outros para trazerem esse material à vida. "A Vida e Música de Thelonious Monk" combina imagens dos Blackwood como Thelonious no estúdio, durante a turnê e cenas por trás das câmeras, como novas entrevistas, fotos de arquivo e mais para criar um marco visual na história do jazz moderno.

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.

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.

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.

A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.

Features Coltrane live at the Antibes Jazz Festival July 26 & 27 1965. Included is a 12-page booklet with an essay written by an authoritative jazz historian as well as rare and unseen photos. This DVD is produced with the full support and cooperation of the artists or his estate, who, in most cases, are contributing rare personal photographs, memorabilia, and forwards.

Grande vídeo de Miles tocando com seu sexteto e a orquestra de Gil Evans. Um programa de TV apresentado por Robert Herridge, The Robert Herridge Theater do Studio 61, e gravado em Nova York em 1959. Com o lendário Miles Davis Quintet com John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb e reforçada pela Orquestra de Gil Evans.

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.