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When Imagine the Sound was released in 1981, Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum deemed it "the best documentary on free jazz that we have." Decades later, the same praise holds true. Director Ron Mann (Grass, Comicbook Confidential) gathered four seminal avant-garde jazz musicians--pianists Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp, and trumpet player Bill Dixon--in a studio for interviews and individual performances. The result is an incredibly philosophical look at the how their social, political, and creative free-form explorations changed the face of jazz music in the early '60s. Like free-jazz players improvising on tonality and time, this documentary itself is structureless, as Mann continuously spins off on different tangents. He weaves numerous heady interviews--completely devoid of nostalgia--with long, uninterrupted, intimate sequences of all of the musicians breaking new musical ground. During one particularly illuminating interview, Bley states that free jazz arrived from a "tremendous disdain for the known," and the same can be said of Mann's thrilling approach here. --Dave McCoy
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Ron Mann |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1981 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Home Vision Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429115435 |
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Fabulous look into someone's head The video is like opening the top of the artists heads and getting the chance to swim around in them a bit. The video leaves no questions as to the tremendous level of creativity that came from this particular time and place. I strongly recommend that this video be used at home and in the classroom.