"Buffalo and All That Jazz "
DV, 50 min. work in progress
Producer: Joy Scime
Director: Vincenzo Mistretta
Description: Buffalo and All That Jazz investigates the impact of jazz on race relations by exploring the question, did jazz as an art form erase the color line or did jazz as a business exacerbate it? The story of jazz in Buffalo, New York offers a means to examine this question because the city produced and nurtured many famous musicians and was a place where every jazz musician of note performed. Yet a dichotomy existed in Buffalo that goes to the heart of the documentary’s principle question.