Collections/June 2024

The Magic of Milford Graves

A rhythm-shattering avant-jazz percussionist and a sui generis martial artist, sculptor, herbalist, and all-around cosmic Renaissance man, the late free-jazz shaman Milford Graves lived a life as liberated and unclassifiable as his music. Including the appropriately kaleidoscopic feature documentary Milford Graves Full Mantis , these films by Graves’s former student Jake Meginsky capture the legendary artist talking, thinking, performing, and philosophizing—offering an intimate immersion into his singular visual, sonic, and metaphysical world. *NOTE: List is missing Earthquake Clips (2011), Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center (2019), Bata Wormhole (2020), Prof at Home Painting 2021 (2021)

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