A lifetime of temporary relief

Alice Coltrane - National Education Television’s Black Journal, 1970

Running like wildfire through certain corners of the internet yesterday — a 15-minute mini-documentary on Alice Coltrane via the National Museum of African American History & Culture. You’ll wish it was 15 times longer, but even still: every second is golden. We see Alice and her kids at their home in Dix Hills, we watch Alice playing some gorgeous solo harp, we get intimate interview segments … and we get footage of an unbelievable outdoor concert featuring Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Rashied Ali and others playing for an audience that seems to be made up of mostly families. The kid dozing peacefully during a blistering Pharoah solo is almost too good to be true. Unreal!