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Paul Bley/Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon/Cecil Taylor: Imagine the Sound Reviewed

From AAJ:

The state of jazz in America in 1981 has remained a sort of lost history, in no small part due to the resounding indifference met by a brilliant film of the same year: Imagine the Sound. Now, with the Ron Mann-directed documentary reissued on DVD for the first time, this overshadowed period can reenter the spotlight to educate, enlighten and entertain those who either missed it the first time around or who weren’t around to experience it first-hand.


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