
NPT’s Free ‘Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary' Screening
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Join NPT and Watkins College of Art on Thursday, Oct. 12, for a free Indie Lens Pop-Up event featuring Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. The screening takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Watkins theater and will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by film/music journalist Ron Wynn and including Roy Wooten, aka Futureman.
Set against the social, political and cultural landscape of the times, John Scheinfeld’s Chasing Trane brings saxophone great John Coltrane to life, as a man and an artist. The film is the definitive look at the boundary-shattering musician whose influence continues to this day.
The new season of Independent Lens premieres Monday, Nov. 6, on NPT.