Many years in the making, Fire Music tells the many-stranded story of free jazz, a chronically misunderstood and often maligned expansion of the improvisatory African-American art form that exploded as a movement in the 1960s through the innovations of path-breaking titans like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler and Sun Ra. Although this avant-garde has been around long enough to become its own tradition - its oldest living exponents are in their 90s - the music still rem...
"...The Parts That Were Left out of the Ken Burns Documentary": Tom Surgal on the "Historical Corrective" That is His Free Jazz Documentary, Fire Music
Filmmaker Magazine - 10 Sep 2021 21:35
Many years in the making, Fire Music tells the many-stranded story of free jazz, a chronically misunderstood and often maligned expansion of the improvisatory African-American art form that exploded as a movement in the 1960s through the innovations of path-breaking titans like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler and Sun Ra. Although this avant-garde has been around long enough to become its own tradition - its oldest living exponents are in their 90s - the music still rem...
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