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Cry of Jazz argues that black life in America shares a structural identity with jazz music. With performance clips by the jazz composer, bandleader and pianist Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the film demonstrates the unifying tension between rehearsed and improvised jazz.
5 lug 2020 · The Cry of Jazz is a 1959 documentary film by Edward O. Bland that connects jazz to African American history. It uses footage of Chicago's black neighborhoods and...
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- Reelblack One
The Cry of Jazz is the only film composer and musician Ed Bland ever helmed. It fused street grit and ivory tower intellect into a thirty-four minute celluloid whirlwind unlike anything before or since, all the while scored by a then unknown Le Sun Ra & his Arkestra.
11 dic 2017 · The Cry of Jazz. For more information and to download this film, please visit https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01195283/ "The Cry of Jazz" is a 34-minute, black-and-white short subject...
- 34 min
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- Library of Congress
The Cry of Jazz is the only film composer and musician Ed Bland ever helmed. Deemed radical, alarmist, and amateurish by many upon its release, it fused street grit and ivory tower intellect into a thirty-four minute celluloid whirlwind, all the while scored by a then unknown Le Sun Ra & his Arkestra.
26 ago 2013 · The Cry of Jazz. By Richard Brody. November 25, 2022. Edward O. Bland’s low-budget dramatic filmmaking is stark, but his cultural insights—as seen in this philosophical featurette, from 1959,...
Featuring music by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, this landmark semi-documentary explores—via a heated conversation between a group of Black and white jazz aficionados—the relationship between jazz and race in America.
