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The Cry of Jazz

The Cry of Jazz

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The Cry of Jazz

1959
0h 34m
5.9(13 votes)
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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.

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George Waller

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Dorothea Horton

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Melinda Dillon

Faye

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Andrew Duncan

John

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Leroy Inman

Louis

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James Miller

Bob

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Gavin McFadyan

Bruce

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Carl Dupree

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Goldina Rojas

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