Tell Me How Long Trane's Been Gone
Directed by Steve Rowland
5 hour overview of the music of John Coltrane and his search for universal consciousness.
Overview
- Genre
- Music, Biography, Social Issues, and Cultural History
- Synopsis
5-hour audio documentary in one-hour episodes, narrated by the great poet Michael S. Harper. Includes interviews with Elvin Jones, Rashied Ali, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Amiri Baraka, Nat Hentoff, Babatunde Olatuni, Alice Coltrane, Steve Coleman and many others. Poems by AB Spellman, Etheridge Knight, Langston Hughes, Jayne Cortez and others.
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 300 minutes
Credits
- Steve Rowland ... Director, Producer, Editor & Co-writer
- Larry Abrams ... Writer and co-producer
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- CultureWorks, Ltd.
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 2001
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2001
- Distribution
- broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations
- Broadcast (Prod.)
- Public Radio
- Language
- English
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