Experience The World Within: The Global Sounds of John Coltrane as saxophonist, flutist, and bandleader Irwin Hall offers a lecture, listening, and performance demonstration exploring the international influences that shaped Coltrane’s music and artistic vision. Through live demonstration, recorded examples, and conversation, Hall traces connections to Africa, Brazil, Spain, India, and the spiritual search at the center of Coltrane’s later work. This program offers a pathway into Hall and his band’s June 11 performance of The World Within.

Hall and his band will perform his four-part live suite, “The World Within: The Global Sounds of John Coltrane,” on June 11 at Cafe Erzulie as part of the Soundoff Sessions.