Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center
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Directed by Jake Meginsky • 2019 • United States
Surrounded by his fellow Yara practitioners, Milford Graves arrives at the arts center in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, for a unique concert, footage of which is interspersed with scenes of the artist in the hospital that same summer.
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