.png "Library Home Page")
Sun Ra
Publisher
WinStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Sun Ra--bandleader, keyboardist, composer and self-made myth, performs and philosophizes in this easygoing yet thorough documentary. Mr. Ra performs onstage with his Intergalactic Omniverse Arkestra, a big band with singers and dancers, that performs in elaborate costumes, adding ritual and theatrical glitter to a far-reaching repertory. Offstage, Mr. Ra recites his pronouncements about vibrations, history and mythocracy. Even in close-up, Mr. Ra...
Series
Mojo volume June 2015
Publisher
A 23 Ears production for MOJO Magazine
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
12) The cry of jazz
Series
Publisher
Music Video Distributors
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
"[This]...semi-documentary film was completed in 1958 in Chicago...Long before the concept of Black Culture existed, THE CRY OF JAZZ argued that Black American life shared a structural identity with jazz. It is one of the earliest documentary films made by Black Americans...[The film] is structured in seven parts. Parts 1, 3, 5 and 7 consist of dramatic scenes in which the significance of jazz and Black American life is discussed by an interracial...