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• The Cry Of Jazz | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-3.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959 The Cry Of Jazz is film maker composer and arranger Edward O Blands polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called 'the death of jazz'. A landmark moment in film forseeing 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 night clubs all shot in glorious black and white.