The Cry of Jazz
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Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.
TSPDT history
| 0 | 2015 |
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| #12336 | #13502 |
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George Waller
as Alex Johnson
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Dorothea Horton
as Natalie
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Melinda Dillon
as Faye
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Andrew Duncan
as John
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Leroy Inman
as Louis
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James Miller
as Bob
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Gavin McFadyan
as Bruce
- Carl Dupree
- Goldina Rojas
- Alan Leavitt
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