Alice Coltrane

 

Alice Coltrane :: 16mm Documentary

Culled from a 1970 documentary created for a segment of the Black Journal television program, this unearthed 16mm color film finds between the albums Huntington Ashram Monastery, and Ptah, the El Daoud.

Captured three years after the death of John Coltrane, the piece begins in media res outside the Long Island, NY home the artist shared with her late husband and children. In a floating voiceover, Coltrane reflects on matters of the spiritual and beyond, as we catch a glimpse of the family’s domestic life on the property. A scant yet powerful fifteen minutes, things soon turn to music as the film shifts to a grip of rare, live footage of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders getting free in performance. Highly recommended.