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.