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My Name is Albert Ayler
Documentary explores the life of 60s avant-garde jazz musician Albert Ayler
Wednesday, Sep 16
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07:00 pm
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08:30 pm
Stone Center
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Kasper Collin Produktion
The fall 09 edition of the Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, Passion and Remembrance: Dislocation/Relocation/Diaspora (D/R/D), includes films that address historical and contemporary movements of people and the social dynamics that tend to define their daily lives.
My Name is Albert Ayler traces the life of avant-garde jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler from his native town of Cleveland, by way of Sweden, to New York. Ayler, who died in 1970 at 34, is today considered among the most prophetic and innovative free jazz musicians of the 1960s. Director Kasper Collin/ Sweden/ 2005/ 79 mins.
Larry Reni Thomas, a 30-year veteran writer/radio announcer and host of Sunday Night Jazz on WCOM 103.5 FM, will lead a post-discussion.
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