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The World According to John Coltrane is a 1990 documentary about jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The World According to John Coltrane moves chronologically. It shows interviews with musicians who worked with Coltrane, such as Rashied Ali, Jimmy Heath, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wayne Shorter, and film clips of live performances. One brief clip shows Coltrane playing "So What" with Miles Davis in 1959.

An album of previously unheard original compositions by the legendary jazz saxophonist has been discovered 55 years after its recording. Sonny Rollins, a peer of Coltrane’s and also regarded as one of the greatest jazz saxophonists of all time, described the discovery as like finding a new room in the Great Pyramid. Among the seven tracks are two completely unheard original compositions, called Untitled Original 11383 and Untitled Original 11386, both of which are played on soprano saxophone

John Coltrane is easily one of the key innovators, visionaries, and virtuosos of American Jazz. Coltrane's spiritually influenced and challenging music not only turned the jazz world upside down in the 1960s, but directly impacted all modern music for decades to follow. It is this relationship between music and spirituality that is the core of John Coltrane: The World According to John Coltrane. Produced with his wife's cooperation, The World According to John Coltrane is truly a heartfelt documentary on his work and influence on the music community.

The Church of Saint Coltrane. The World According to John Coltrane. Trane Tracks: The Legacy of John Coltrane. 5. A Love Supreme – A Love Supreme is a 1965 studio album by American jazz saxophonist and bandleader John Coltrane. A Love Supreme was released by Impulse, records in January 1965 and became a top-selling album for Coltrane, as well as one of jazzs most critically acclaimed recordings. Since then, it has often been viewed as one of the greatest albums of all time, a spiritual work.

Hence the reliance on reminiscences and lots of fancy zooms on stills. Of great interest to Coltrane scholars will be the recording of John Coltrane while in the Navy (1947) playing the alto saxophone (on Charlie Parker's "Ko-Ko")-by far the earliest recording of the saxophonist that has yet surfaced, and a few excerpts from concert and studio performances

Rashied Ali. Himself.

In his short life, John Coltrane continually pushed the boundaries of music. From swing to bebop to hard bop to free jazz, Coltrane was a restless seeker of new sounds. Inspired by the hypnotic, trance-inducing traditional music of North Africa and Asia, Coltrane created a new kind of music that fused jazz and Eastern spirituality.