Name Edward Bland Role Composer | Movies Cry of Jazz | |
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Died March 14, 2013, Smithfield, Virginia, United States Education American Conservatory of Music Parents Edward Bland, Althea Bland People also search for Nelam Hill, Mark Kennedy, Eugene Titus | ||
Music director The House of Dies Drear | ||
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Edward Osmund Bland (July 25, 1926–March 14, 2013) was an American composer and musical director.
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- Fallen marine veteran edward bland cremains escort friday nov 1 san francisco ca
- Biography
- As arranger
- References
Biography
Bland was born on the South Side of Chicago to Althea and Edward Bland. His father was a postal worker but also a self-taught literary critic with illustrious friends such as Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes. Edward senior died in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, and son Edward Bland also briefly served in the Army during World War II, after which he studied at both the University of Chicago and the American Conservatory of Music on the G.I. Bill.
Among his compositions is a concerto for electric violin and chamber orchestra. He composed scores for the TV play A Raisin in the Sun (1989) and the film A Soldier's Story (1984). Another notable work is Sketches Set Seven for piano.
He also wrote, directed, and produced the 1959 film Cry of Jazz. In the 1990s, this documentary was rediscovered by scholars and celebrated as an early example of independent black filmmaking. It was soon restored and reissued on DVD in 1996, and in 2010 the Library of Congress added it to its National Film Registry collection as “a historic and fascinating film that comments on racism and the appropriation of jazz by those who fail to understand its artistic and cultural origins.”
As arranger
With Eric Kloss