Chasing Trane

Thursday, Feb. 9 at 9:30 p.m.

on WETA Metro

Made with the support of the Coltrane family, the film Chasing Trane spotlights music legend John Coltrane, an outside-the-box thinker whose boundary-shattering music continues to influence people around the world. This portrait of a remarkable jazz artist reveals the critical events, passions, experiences and challenges that shaped the life of the saxophonist and his revolutionary sounds. It is a story of demons and darkness, of persistence and redemption — and the journey of a spiritual warrior who found himself, found God and, in the process, created an extraordinary body of work. Coltrane’s words are spoken in the film by Denzel Washington.