Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center

Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center

Filmed in and around percussionist Milford Grave’s last public concert in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens.

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Milford Graves Full Mantis

Milford Graves Full Mantis

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz...

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Prof at Home Painting

Prof at Home Painting

In the months before he passed away, Milford Graves created the paintings that were displayed at the Fridman Gallery and Artists Space by vibrating...

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Bata Wormhole

Bata Wormhole

Using a device known as an electronic stethoscope, musician Milford Graves is able to hear and record the different patterns produced by each...

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Earthquake Clips

Earthquake Clips

On August 23, 2011, three days after Milford Graves’s seventieth birthday, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake cracked the soil near Mineral, Virginia. That...

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Graves in the Garden

Graves in the Garden

In the heat of the summer, in his backyard garden in Jamaica, Queens, Milford Graves sings to Ọsanyin, the one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged orisha...

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