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"the Breath Courses Through Us" A Documentary Film About The New York Art Quartet at Outsound New Music Summit Festival at Community Music Center
Courtesy of Rent Romus | Posted on July 9, 2018
Where
Community Music Center
Outsound New Music Summit Festival
544 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA
Map
(415) 647-6015
When
Mon, July 23, 2018
8:30 pm
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Musicians
Milford Graves
drumsPierre Dorge
guitarReggie Workman
bassAmiri Baraka
vocalsJohn Tchicai
saxophoneAbout
The Breath Courses Through Us" (2013) is a documentary film about the early 1960s avant-garde jazz group, the New York Art Quartet. The film focuses on the group’s 35-year reunion, while reaching back through their recollections of their foundations and innovative musical ideas. The year 2014 is the 50th anniversary of this group, and a revolutionary period in jazz music, which declared its existence in the October Revolution in Jazz, in October 1964. "The Breath Courses Through Us" mirrors the newly open improvisationary style of “free jazz” that subverted the traditional structure of jazz...