“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 ...

*PBS kicks off its new season of Independent Lens this month with the documentary “Chasing Trane,” a definitive look at boundary-shattering jazz legend John Coltrane, from writer/director John ...

Drop a needle on a John Coltrane record, hit play on one of his digital playlists, or watch Chasing Trane and it’s easy to understand why the saxophonist is universally revered as a musical giant. The ...

John Coltrane helped shape the boundaries and the receptivity of his own musical times. But it’s nonetheless remarkable that a jazz album as personal, searching and ecstatically out-there as John ...