“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, ...

And then it happens. And when it happens, you just can’t believe it’s happening. Cornel West, one of the leading black intellectuals of the 20th century, and one of the celebrity interviewees in the ...

The first time he heard John Coltrane's version of "My Favorite Things," Robin Washington was about 6 years old, killing time outside the Chicago office of the Congress of Racial Equality. His mother ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dimensions of John Coltrane, Jazz Genius, are widely known. Born in Hamlet, N.C., he first learned to play the saxophone while growing up in High Point, then came to embrace jazz in Philadelphia.

Midway through Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, DOC NYC’s closing night film, jazz great Jimmy Heath is talking about his old friend’s 1965 opus A Love Supreme. Heath cites “Resolution,” ...

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 ...