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'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' Review: Art and Politics Intertwine in This Superb Documentary
the U.S., and the United Nations to eliminate Pan-African nationalist Patrice Lumumba. In this rigged game of chess, men and women like Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Nina Simone are used ...
Los Angeles Times29d
How the CIA used jazz greats as cover for a 1961 coup in Africa
The film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with ... exposé that centers on the January 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, less than a year after he was elected leader of the newly formed ...
Tribune on MSN16d
‘The Empire was hidden in Belgium. It was called the Empire of Silence.’
Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat opens with footage of a Max Roach drum solo, cut with intertitles of his wife, the singer, ...
Boise State Public Radio12d
Jazz, politics, continents collide in Oscar-nominated 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'
Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, ...
Iowa Public Radio14d
Jazz, politics, continents collide in Oscar-nominated 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'
As the film shows, behind the scenes, Western plots and interventions culminated with the overthrow and murder of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of Congo – an act for which the Belgian ...
New Hampshire Public Radio13d
Jazz, politics, continents collide in Oscar-nominated 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'
It was the culmination of a political earthquake as leaders from Ghana's founder, Kwame Nkrumah, to Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba ... a Coup d'Etat. The film charts both the ...