John Coltrane was the most innovative and influential jazz saxophonist of the 1960’s. This documentary shows that he was all that and more—-much more. “The World According to John Coltrane” is anything but a conventional documentary film. It traces Coltrane’s musical growth from his roots in the black church and in rhythm and blues through his forty years of life and beyond, concluding with a musical meeting between Art Ensemble of Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and dervish musicians in Morocco’s eastern Sahara desert.

Made with the cooperation of Alice Coltrane.

Filmed in Morocco