The Sound Before the Fury
FREE FILM SCREENING & CONVERSATION:
The Sound Before the Fury, a 2014 documentary film about the making of saxophone legend Archie Shepp's GRAMMY-nominated album I Hear the Sound: Attica Blues Live, followed by a conversation with Archie Shepp and writer Greg Tate.
In January 1972, Archie Shepp recorded the album Attica Blues as an homage to the Attica prison rebellion, 40 years later he revisits this music. We follow him along with 25 musicians through days of intense rehearsal to the opening concert in Paris. The Sound Before the Fury interweaves this narrative with images from the rebellion, and interviews of the leaders recorded in 1972. We witness Shepp's determination to transmit, beyond the notes, the meaning and feeling of his music ; we discover the ties, some intimate, that the musicians have with the Attica events.
Jazz at Princeton University's Creative Large Ensemble, led by Darcy James Argue, will join special guest saxophonist Archie Shepp and vocalist Amina Claudine Myers to perform music from Shepp’s Grammy-nominated recording, “I Hear the Sound” on Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 8:00PM. For more information about the concert and tickets, click here.