Secret John Coltrane album was ‘hidden in plain sight’ as soundtrack for 1964 French-Canadian film

An unearthed album by the legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane has been hidden in plain sight for more than 50 years in the archives of the National Film Board of Canada.

“Here was a possible project for Coltrane to expand into the film world,” Kahn said. “And what musician does not want to see multiple purposes for their music?” Quebec’s revolutionary tendencies might have played a part in why Coltrane agreed to record the soundtrack in the first place.

Kahn said that despite having an original full 37-minute recording made by one of his favourite artists, Groulx only used about 10 minutes of the sessions in Le chat dans le sac. In the film, Coltrane can be heard only when the two main characters, Barbara and Claude, are together in Montreal. When they leave the city, Coltrane is omitted.

According to Frédéric Savard of the NFB, the tapes were rediscovered by the film board in the early 2000s when Carol Faucher, tasked with putting together a box set of Groulx’s films, found the original recordings of the sessions in the archives, alongside the original contracts between the film’s producer and Coltrane.

“To me, it was kind of unreal that we had copy one out of one,” Savard said, “ the only existing copy in the entire world was sitting in our archives.”

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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