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Imagine the Sound

Original title: Imagine the Sound
Year: 1981
Running time: 91 min.
Country: Canada
Director: Ron Mann
Screenwriter: Ron Mann
Cast: Documentary, Self: Paul Bley, Bill Dixon, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Kenny Werner
Cinematography: Robert Fresco
Producer: Ron Mann
Genre: Documentary | Music Documentary. Jazz
Synopsis: The first feature documentary by Ron Mann (Grass, Comicbook Confidential) is an eloquent tribute to a group of highly celebrated artists that helped forge the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s. Critic and film historian Jonathan Rosenbaum has said Imagine the SoundI "may be the best documentary on free jazz that we have." The film features mind expanding interviews and singular, dramatic performances by pianists Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, tenor saxophone Archie Shepp, and trumpet player Bill Dixon. Not since Scorsese's The Last Waltz has a music documentary been so thorough and compatible with its subject. Alongside the dynamic performances, the film captures the diverse history and politicized roots of this unique musical genre. Imagine the Sound is an important chapter in the history of the jazz documentary.

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Imagine the Sound

1981

Ron Mann