The Cry of Jazz

Year: 1959

Runtime: 34 mins

Language: English

Director: Edward Bland

MusicDocumentary

Shot in Chicago and finished in 1959, Edward O. Bland’s film is a polemical essay on music, race and the alleged “death of jazz.” It became a landmark of Black cinema, foretelling later unrest, and includes the only known Sun Ra footage from Chicago, plus black‑and‑white scenes of tenor John Gilmore and the Arkestra in city nightclubs.

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