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The experimental film is titled The Cry Of Jazz – a fascinating 34-minute critical analysis of Jazz music, directed by Ed Bland
(an African American) – his only film. He went on to a career as a composer, arranger, and producer for the likes of Dizzy Gillespie,
and on films like A Raisin In The Sun, Ganja And Hess, and The Cool World.
Shot on 16mm black-and-white, on no budget, with a volunteer cast and crew, the film is essentially a thesis on the structural
correlation between black life in America and jazz music. Indeed, Bland wrote a book on the matter, titled, The Fruits of the Death
of Jazz, and the characters in the film serve as mouthpieces for his declarations, which must have been startling at the time the film was made, in 1959.
( http://www.shadowandact.com/?p=36047 )
(an African American) – his only film. He went on to a career as a composer, arranger, and producer for the likes of Dizzy Gillespie,
and on films like A Raisin In The Sun, Ganja And Hess, and The Cool World.
Shot on 16mm black-and-white, on no budget, with a volunteer cast and crew, the film is essentially a thesis on the structural
correlation between black life in America and jazz music. Indeed, Bland wrote a book on the matter, titled, The Fruits of the Death
of Jazz, and the characters in the film serve as mouthpieces for his declarations, which must have been startling at the time the film was made, in 1959.
( http://www.shadowandact.com/?p=36047 )