Go Further: A Film By Ron Mann
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This award-winning film is an art exposition brought to life.

In paying tribute to the seveteran jazz pioneers, it adds an important chapter to the history of the jazz documentary and Paul Bley.

Called the "The jazz film" by Canada's The Globe and Mail and compared to The Last Waltz, Imagine the Sound is an exuberant profile of four legendary figures associated with the jazz avant-garde of the sixties--Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon

The first feature documentary by Ron Mann is an eloquent tribute to a group of highly celebrated artists that helped forge the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s.

Critic and film historian Jonathan Rosenbaum has said Imagine the Sound "may be the best documentary on free jazz that we have."

The film features mind expanding interviews and singular, dramatic performances by pianists Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, tenor saxophone Archie Shepp, and trumpet player Bill Dixon. Not since Scorsese's The Last Waltz has a music documentary been so thorough and compatible with its subject.

Alongside the dynamic performances, the film captures the diverse history and politicized roots of this unique musical genre. Imagine the Sound is an important chapter in the history of the jazz documentary.

The Mothership
Ken Kesey and Woody Harrelson
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The Mothership
The Mothership
IMAGINE THE SOUND
Theatrical Documentary
16mm, 90 minutes, colour,
1981

Director: Ron Mann
Producers: Ron Mann, Bill Smith
Director of Photography: Robert Fresco
Sound Recordist: Phil Sheridan
Editor: Sonya Polonsky