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Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (2016)

An exploration of the global power and impact of the music of John Coltrane where the passions, experiences and forces that shaped his life and revolutionary sounds are revealed.

Cast:
John Coltrane: Denzel Washington
Self: Pharoah Sanders
Themselves: The John Coltrane Quartet

Written by: John Scheinfeld

Director: John Scheinfeld

Production: Crew Neck Productions, Meteor 17

Release date: 14 Apr 2017

Box Office: $406,284

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Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (2016)
An exploration of the global power and impact of the music of John Coltrane where the passions, experiences and forces that shaped his life and revolutionary sounds are revealed. Cast: John Coltrane: Denzel Washington Self: Pharoah Sanders Themselves: The John Coltrane Quartet Written by: John Scheinfeld Director: John Scheinfeld Production: Crew Neck Productions, Meteor 17 Release date: 14 Apr 2017 Box Office: $406,284
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And each night he seemed to not be as sick.
And we thank God, you know, that he... allowed John Coltrane to get past... you know, the... the gates of hell. [Bill Clinton] He just decided to do it, and by strength of will and faith, he did it.
Birmingham is a symbol of hardcore resistance to integration. It was probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States, and the injustices inflicted upon Negroes are the notorious realities.
Coltrane thought it was cleansing and uplifting, but that's not what people heard. They heard shrieking.
He had fingers that went kinda strange, I'd been looking at his hands. We'd been practicing together, and that's the only thing that reminded me of Trane. So that wasn't him. He had passed on to the next place. His spirit was gone.
He's pushing forward, such that he may even know. what he's pushing forward to.
His music just sounded different. It was like there was new blood in it. His playing, there was new blood in his playing. There was a certain kind of almost recklessness.
His passion was peace and love... for the universe.
His sound makes people cry, like, "Oh, damn, what are these tears? Why am I crying? What's going on? Your body's doing something that your mind don't want to do.
I dislike war period. So therefore as far as I'm concerned. it should stop It was July 14 1966. when I went to pick up John Coltrane and his musicians at the train station Everyone came out except Coltrane.
It was at night when all of a sudden. the voices got louder and louder and louder, and I'm like, "Uh oh. Oh, dear. What is going on?".
My Favorite Things was a record that I actually played for my friends. because I felt like they would like it. The reason that music touches everybody is that was Coltrane's intention, and he put a lot of everybody's music in that music. You know? And that soprano saxophone, that kind of nasal sound. is really popular all over the world. Coltrane had worked on that his entire life. How can I bring people together, and how can I bring these cultures and how can I bring this music together?...
My mother did speak of John's death in this way, which... just floored me. Uh... She said... it was beautiful. It was warm, and the breath went out of him. He was not in any pain. She said at the very... this is the moment of transition. She used the word beautiful. That's what-- That's how she revealed it to me.
My name is Yasuhiro Fujioka, but known as Fuji because of very long and difficult name for foreigners. So, everybody calls me Fuji, like Mount Fuji.
So he cleaned up and when he cleaned up, things began to unfold.
So here's this Broadway... melody... and he just transforms it into this gorgeous thing. ["My Favorite Things" continues]
That's the one that touches me, that melody. [interviewer] Where does it take you? It takes me to heaven, where I want to be when I leave here. That's it, isn't it? [interviewer chuckles]
We thought that what we were doing, the gift came from The Almighty. Not that we were walking around like, "I'm this, I'm that...". It's not ego at all. It's what you were put here for. What's your reason for being here?
When you hear that recording from when he was in the Navy, he doesn't play well. It's not possible to believe it's Coltrane. [Ben Ratliff] Some people blossom very early. For Coltrane, that was not the case. I don't think you could listen to that and say, "Great things ahead.". And just that he could go from that way of playing to what he became, That's all you need to know about him.
You know, I don't understand it. I'm open to it. I try to embrace it. I try to follow it. I just proceed on the premise that I'm not prepared to fully grasp. all the creativity that's taking place. If it's Coltrane, I already have a certain trust, but it's not the kind of music I would just sit there and listen to all the time. I got to really zero in, and I still don't fully grasp. what's going on.
[Antonia] Growing up in the South, of course, I know he wanted things to be better, But he didn't talk about it. I think he put that in his music. [loud explosion] [glass shattering]
[Ashley Kahn] A Love Supreme, is something I think every great musician aspires to, which is finding that one moment, or that one song, or that one recording, that one album which really kind of encapsulates everything that they are, what their what their message is.
[Ashley Kahn] There were indications by the end of 1966 and into '67 that Coltrane wasn't doing well. His sidemen later would report that he was holding his side. like he was in pain. And sure enough, he was later diagnosed with liver cancer. [Fuji] At first when Coltrane died, I think it was just shock. I mean he was only 40, and he hadn't been ill for a long time.
[Ashley Kahn] Within a year of leaving Miles Davis for good, John Coltrane has an incredible radio hit. with this tune that is from The Sound of Music. ["My Favorite Things" playing]
[Benny Golson] John Coltrane, he could get in his spaceship and it could take him anywhere, anywhere he wanted to go.
[Coltrane] During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked. to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music.
[Coltrane] I dislike war. Period. So therefore, as far as I'm concerned, it should stop.
[Coltrane] The first time I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that was the thing for me. Charlie Parker did all the things I would like to do and more. He really had a... a genius.
[Cornel West] Just to say the name John Coltrane, it makes me shake and tremble. It's like talking about Beethoven, Shakespeare... You're talking about an artistic genius and a spiritual giant. [Jimmy Heath] Trane had a sound that was... heavenly. It was like, "Oh, my God.".
[Jimmy Heath] We are playing in nightclubs, where the pimps and hustlers are around, and you go for the hype. "Hey, man, take some of this and you'll feel up and good." Then you go for it, and then you're stuck.
[Jimmy] The second piece on there is the one that touches me. [imitates saxophone music]
[Kamasi] It's not the car, it's the driver. So his sound, it sounds like it's coming from some deep part of himself, even though you hear him on different horns, you hear him on different mouthpieces. You can see him playing different setups. Still, it doesn't matter. It's coming from that soul. His grandfather was a preacher, and I can hear that... They say there's a wailing sometimes, a wailing. I can hear Trane's appreciation for what his grandfather's mission was.
[Lewis Porter] At the end of 1957, Coltrane came back into Miles' band. The difference, though, the second stint with Miles, is that now Coltrane kinda had a sense of who he was.
[Lewis Porter] Coltrane was in the Navy in 1945 to '46, and stationed at Pearl Harbor. [Ravi] The very first John Coltrane recordings, quote unquote, come from 1946 when he's a part of a Navy band and they do this recording in Hawaii, and they're playing Bird tunes, and you can hear this very young John Coltrane, uh... playing and imitating the style of Charlie Parker, his hero.
[Lewis Porter] He quit what they call "cold turkey," which means he didn't go to an institution, he didn't have any kind of medical support. During the days, he would just stay home and keep the door closed.
[man] Here we go. -[Miles] Wait. -[man] OK. [Miles] Trane and I'll play one, you know, together out. You know what I mean? Can you hear me? -[man] Yeah. -[Miles] Let's go.
[Sonny Rollins] I was at the funeral. They wanted me to be a pallbearer, and I, man, but I could not do it. I looked at him in the casket, and the way he was embalmed and all that. Only thing I recognized was his hands.
[Sonny Rollins] John was my best friend. He wasn't like 99 percent of other people. He existed in the real world. I mean, he had a family, he had kids, but that's not where he was at. He was not in the real world. He was someplace else. So he's cool. He's cool. He was cool when he was here and he's cool in the big picture. He's cool.
[Sonny Rollins] You know, the last time I talked to John on the phone... his, uh... his voice sounded... it sounded, uh...
[Sonny] You can't describe music with words. We can say, "Oh, yeah, this guy was doing a lot of technical stuff, Wow, when we analyze it and wow, look at this. Look at these changes and these harmonics.". But it's not about that. It's about hearing it.
[Wynton Marsalis] Coltrane's strength of character is in his journey through music. He sacrificed, and he had the insight and the consciousness. to touch that thing that's inside of all of us.
[Wynton] The thing about A Love Supreme, all of Trane's mysticism is in it. The totality of his consciousness. expresses itself most fully on that record. I don't even think he knew why. Sometimes in the life of artists, or people who search and practice. and study and work on stuff, they find things and it's, it's in there... And... it was in there.

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