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Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers – brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane – are today acknowledged as central to the evolution of jazz as America’s most innovative art form. FIRE MUSIC showcases the architects of a movement whose radical brand of improvisation pushed harmonic and rhythmic boundaries and produced landmark albums like Coleman’s Free Jazz: A Collective Inspiration and Coltrane’s Ascension. A rich trove of archival footage conjures the 1960s jazz scene along with incisive reflections by critic Gary Giddins and a number of the movement’s key players.
Original Release
01/01/2018
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rashied Ali | Self |
Albert Ayler | Self |
Carla Bley | Self |
Bobby Bradford | Self |
Dave Burrell | Self |
Don Cherry | Self |
Ornette Coleman | Self |
John Coltrane | Self |
Eric Dolphy | Self |
Gary Giddins | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rashied Ali | Self |
Albert Ayler | Self |
Carla Bley | Self |
Bobby Bradford | Self |
Dave Burrell | Self |
Don Cherry | Self |
Ornette Coleman | Self |
John Coltrane | Self |
Eric Dolphy | Self |
Gary Giddins | Self |
Tristan Hansinger | Self |
Prince Lasha | Self |
Charlie Parker | Self |
Sam Rivers | Self |
Ingrid Sertso | Self |
Sonny Simmons | Self |
Sun Ra | Self |
Cecil Taylor | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Peter Afterman | Executive Producer |
Nels Cline | Executive Producer |
David Koh | Executive Producer |
Ron Mann | Executive Producer |
Thurston Moore | Executive Producer |
Tom Surgal | Producer |
Louis Black | Producer |
Dan Braun | Producer |
Anne Burr | Producer |
Fernando Couto | Producer |
Scott Crary | Producer |
Lin Culbertson | Producer |
Sola Fasehun | Producer |
Jay Korber | Producer |
John Loggia | Producer |
John Madsen | Producer |
Dave Nuss | Producer |
Jeffrey Tweedy | Producer |
Pelin Uzay | Producer |
Joseph Wemple | Producer |