City of a Million Dreams

Name: City of a Million Dreams
Director: Jason Berry
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-04-01
Cast: Dr. Michael White, Deborah Cotton

2021 · Documentary

Every jazz funeral is a drama, a freeze-frame of the city. The marching band leads the procession of grief to the slow dirges, sorrow songs, and after burial the jazzmen kick into up tempo parade anthems, the soul’s “cutting loose” for the second line of dazzling street dancers.

Directed by Jason Berry · Written by Jason Berry

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Dr. Michael White Self
Deborah Cotton Self

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