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Aug 26, 2013 · 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, based on his own writings—are profound....
- Condé Nast
Where The Cry of Jazz operates most straightforwardly as a documentary, it captures the era’s extant styles of jazz (whether you consider them living or, as Alex insists, dead) as performed by the composer-bandleader Sun Ra and his Arkestra just a few years before his total self-transformation into a sci-fi ...
The Cry of Jazz. Scenes of life in Chicago's black neighborhoods are intercut with interviews of interracial artists and intellectuals that connect jazz to Black history.
- Edward Bland
- Drama
- George Waller
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.
86 ★★★★★ ratings (10%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. Recent reviews. 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."
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- Edward Bland
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Richard Brody New Yorker. TOP CRITIC. The movie, which is as passionate as it is analytical, suggests a new dimension in music criticism. Full...
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Overview. 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 ...
