The Cry of Jazz
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The Cry of Jazz brings together George Waller, Dorothea Horton, Melinda Dillon and Andrew Duncan under the direction of Edward Bland. It runs 34m and holds a 6.2/10 average rating on TMDB from 15 votes. The documentary and music movie was released on March 22, 1959, originally in English.
Plot summary: 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.
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