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...
Runtime:
34 min
Director:
Edward Bland
Cast:
George Waller, Dorothea Horton, Linda Dillon, Andrew Duncan, Leroy Inman