Fire Music
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
Tom Surgal’s film looks at the astonishing sounds (and sights) of that combustible and wildly diverse moment in music known as free jazz; it’s a fittingly wild and freeform tribute to music that makes your hair stand on end.
Q&As with Tom Surgal, Dan Braun, Lin Culbertson, John Northrup, and Dave Burrell on September 29 & October 1 (joined by Gary Giddens)
Tom Surgal’s film looks at the astonishing sounds (and sights) of that combustible and wildly diverse moment in music known as free jazz, which more or less began with Ornette Coleman, whose tone clusters and abandonment of strict rhythms opened the floor from under modern jazz. Surgal pays close attention to the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, and, of course, the recently deceased piano genius Cecil Taylor. Filled with priceless archival footage and photographs, Fire Music is a fittingly wild and freeform tribute to music that makes your hair stand on end.
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