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This is a most excellent critical analysis of Jazz. Brutally honest and totally factual. This 35 minute film packs more of a wallop than the ENTIRE 10 disc K…

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8 Responses to “The Cry of Jazz (1959) Part 1 of 4”

1. sleeplessinsale says:

   August 24, 2012 at 7:37 am

   This is crap. Embarrassing really.

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2. bigbalbootha52 says:

   August 25, 2012 at 12:46 am

   I agree this is crap!! The whole NEGRO thing as man and or jazz man must be constantly creative this the way the negro remains free. otherwise the demoralizing image that america puts on him will consume him,,, come on!!! this is rascist as hell

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3. Fank234 says:

   October 30, 2012 at 9:09 pm

   @bigbalbootha52 not sure if you are missing the point here. During the 50′s many black people referred to themselves as negro – sonny Rollins does on the back of way out west? Of course today that word would never be used by anyone.

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4. closetome says:

   October 31, 2012 at 2:25 am

   Jazz is glory, honour, tribute, history, skill, popular music.

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5. 326Ka says:

   January 3, 2013 at 3:27 am

   this documentary is the truth.jazz and pretty much all of modern american pop music comes from black americans and could only come from them because in order for something new to come on the scene it has to come from someone or a people who are outside of the status quo.if a white peson was playing something like jazz other whites would say “he’s not playing music right”and they will correct him.blacks at the dawn of jazz could’nt go to music schools to learn how to play music the

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6. 326Ka says:

   January 3, 2013 at 3:35 am

   right or “white”way so they came up with thier own way of playing music with thier own rules and regulations.the truth is whites have never just excepted black music at first glance.they’ve always degraded it and called it inferior nigger music.then only excepted it after they realized how big it was and creative it is.then they’d try to controll it and find a white guy who could do it then say he’s better then the blacks.it went from nigger music to americas music.hypocrisy at its finest.

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7. shizzy35 says:

   January 11, 2013 at 3:57 am

   Certainly jazz was a product of black culture and creativity. But a lot of jazz artists also were influenced by European classical music, which they integrated into the jazz sound. Just listen to Ellington or Miles. Rock n’ roll was most heavily influenced by black blues, but it was also influenced by country music, which has its roots in Scottish folk music. What is most accurate here is that all of these music forms could only have been created in a country of diverse cultures and origins.

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8. festerfree says:

   February 18, 2013 at 7:26 pm

   1959 Was a pivotal year for jazz, but it was all NEW forms of jazz. Aside from Ella’s release of Gershwin, which had some pretty amazing arrangements, most of the music broke new ground. So, as they say in the film, “The body is dead, but the spirit lives on.” People who miss racism’s role in jazz need to revisit the history of New Orleans and Jim Crow. Jazz brought the races together, however, in ways no other music has!

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