City of a Million Dreams

City of a Million Dreams – This film follows the evolution of jazz funerals from African burial dances transplanted to a colonial park as New Orleans endures floods, epidemics, and the epic struggle for black freedom. Funerals mirror history. As clarinetist Michael White searches for the origins of a musical ancestor, blogger Deb “Big Red” Cotton chronicles the culture on video until nineteen people are shot at a parade, plunging Deb and Michael into a search for the city’s soul.

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