Shot by Edward O. Bland in downtown Chicago and originally released in 1959, the half-hour documentary short The Cry of Jazz functions as Bland's foreboding prophecy, predicting the death of jazz as a form of African American expression, and deeply analyzing the racial politic of the music. In its ...more
- Ed Bland - Director
- Nelam Hill - Producer
- Ed Bland - Producer
- Eugene Titus - Screenwriter
- Mark Kennedy - Screenwriter
- Nelam Hill - Screenwriter
- Ed Bland - Screenwriter
- Sun Ra - Composer (Music Score)






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