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Keeping Time

2023 · Movie · 32 min

DocumentaryMusic

The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark) has been a legend in Los Angeles’s avant-garde jazz community for over sixty years. But since the death of its founder, pianist and composer Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbing with the tide of history. Following the group’s young drummer and new bandleader Mekala Session as he struggles to honor his musical forebears while establishing a new path forward, KEEPING TIME is a kaleidoscopic audiovisual homage to musicians who pass on the magic and the communities that nourish them.

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Details
Years
2023
Release date
2023-01-25
Language
English
Runtime
32 min

Themes

  • jazz
  • jazz singer or musician
  • los angeles, california
  • bandleader
  • drummer

Cast & crew

Directed by Darol Olu Kae