My foray into movie making with this awesome band of jazz musicians and poets, Heroes Are Gang Leaders. An avant-garde/experimental jazz band looking to redefine the concept of music/sound and its relationship to instrument and literary text.
Video Outtakes, Promotional Clips and BRoll Footage from “Say Trippin” a documentary webisodic film project in collaboration with Heroes Are Gang Leaders.
CAST
Heroes Are Gang Leaders Band
Co-Founder, Poet + Band Leader, Thomas Sayers Ellis – Co-Founder, Tenor Saxophonist + Composer, James Brandon Lewis
Front Line: Randall Horton: Author, Poet, Spokenword Artist – Margaret Morris, Lead Singer, Crystal Good, Spokenword Artist, No Land, Vocalist
Musicians: Janice Lowe, Piano, Luke Stewart, electric bass, Devin Brahja Waldman, Alto Saxophone,
Heroes band leader, Thomas Sayers Ellis going over last minute details with band members before the show @Roulette in Brooklyn
Recording session @47 in the West Village for The Artificial Happiness Button CD featuring, Noland + Margaret Morris
Heroes Are Gang Leaders perform MistaSsippy at the Bowery Poetry Club in SoHo, New York
