
Plot
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 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 nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.
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Cast

George Waller
Alex Johnson

Dorothea Horton
Natalie

Melinda Dillon
Faye

Andrew Duncan
John

Leroy Inman
Louis

James Miller
Bob

Gavin McFadyan
Bruce

Carl Dupree

Goldina Rojas

Alan Leavitt

Carl McCormack

Lettie Mae Randolph