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Imagine the Sound

Screening on Film
Directed by Ron Mann.
Canada, 1981, 35mm, color, 92 min.

An exuberant profile of four legendary figures associated with the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s—Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, and Paul Bley. Shepp speaks of Malcolm X and Coltrane, Bley and Dixon discuss jazz and dance, Taylor talks his own poetry. "The best documentary on free jazz that we have" – critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.

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