‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ – One Night Only!
February 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
$12
Director: Johan Grimonprez Run Time: 150 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Abbey Lincoln, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Max Roach, Patrice Lumumba
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.