The main point concerning the synthesizer is the same as in all other instruments, that is, its capacity for the projection of feeling. This will not be determined in a large degree just by the instrument itself, but always in music, by the musician who plays the instrument.

Cotton Comes to Harlem, Shaft, Hit Man, and Superfly are also clear.

of Stravinsky’s Le Sacré du Printemps. The

When someone finally got around to asking Sun Ra if he was part of the underground, he declared that he was in the sub-underground.

In fact, he was a romantic in the strict sense of the term, one who believed that music should be composed and played through the “addition of strangeness to beauty.”

“Ancient Aiethopia” calls up the spirit of Ellington’s programmatic

Don Michael, a one-armed pianist who played and recorded with Erskine Hawkins in the mid-1940s.

at The Cry of Jazz and another film called Unheard Melodies, which showed how wind caused statues to

The Cry of Jazz—was based in part on an unpublished book by Bland entitled The Fruits of the Death of Jazz.