John Coltrane — Actor (2)
John Coltrane Quartet: Live in Liège (1965) [Movie] TMDB
John Coltrane Quartet: Live in Liège
director: Serge Leroy actor: John Coltrane / Elvin Jones
The bold and ferocious harmonic imagination of John Coltrane is laid bare in this concert, captured at the Comblain-La-Tour Festival in Belgium, 1965. Alongside his famed quartet, he delivers a transcendent performance that is marked by the total physicality of the music – four sets of hands moving with restless vigour as vapour literally rises from their shoulders and into the night sky.
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
director: Kevin Fitzgerald actor: Muhammad Ali / Planet Asia
From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles, "Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme" captures the electrifying energy of improvisational hip-hop--the rarely recorded art form of rhyming spontaneously. Like preachers and jazz solos, freestyles exist only in the moment, a modern-day incarnation of the African-American storytelling tradition. Shot over a period of more than seven years, it is already an underground cult film in the hip-hop world. The film systematically debunks the false image put out by record companies that hip-hop culture is violent or money-obsessed. Instead, it lets real hip-hop artists, known and unknown, weave their story out of a passionate mix of language, politics, and spirituality.