Volta Laboratory Social Club Presents: The Life, Love & Hate Of A Free Jazz Man & His Woman (Documentary Screening) With The Convergence

Join us for the Atlanta premiere of the documentary film, "The Life, Love & Hate of a Free Jazz Man & his Woman." A Q&A with the producer of the film Rob Peterson will follow the screening. Music from The Convergence and Currency will close out the evening. The Life, Love and Hate of a Free Jazz Man and His Woman is a document of the last march of a once deadly saxophone player named Arthur Doyle. Doyle was born in Birmingham, Alabama in the days when it earned the nickname "Bombingham". He gigged with Gladys Knight and her Pips, The Blue Flames post Jimi Hendrix and many more crucial musicians in the 1950s and 60s. He moved to NYC in 1967 four months after Coltrane died and quickly became one of the rising stars of Jazz's New Thing in the 1970s. Due to infiltration, rumors of infiltration, and dis-integrative forces all around the scene Doyle and his associates suffered abuses both psychological and physical. Some went straight and got day jobs and some disappeared never to be heard from again. Doyle continued to do his thing, his way, all the way. He turned down Sun Ra for a second time, joined punk and no-wave outfits and eventually moved to Paris where he spent 5 years being railroaded around the prison system for a crime he did not commit. They wouldn't let him have his horn so he wrote a memoir and a songbook that today stands at over 300 original tunes. This film is his last testament, his last shows on this earth. Trailer: http://vimeo.com/49880432 The Convergence offers out there jazz freak outs that would make your mother cry tears of hysteria and rapture simultaneously. Their unique compositions and improvisations offer a psychedelic and beautiful experience. Members: Marquinn Mason- Saxophone Majid Araim- Mandolin Maxwell Boecker- Bass Zach Dawson- Drums Rafael Villanueva- Guitar. Watch them in action at the Go Bar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naQTcp2S_qk Currency provides free form sonic explorations into a jazzy psychedelic nebula of percussion, horns, and strings. Dan Bailey - Bass Chris Childs - Congas Eric Fontaine - Alto Saxophone John Gregg - Percussion Ryan Gregory - Violin Jared Pepper - Drums Ben Shirley - Cello. Listen to them in action live at the eye drum via their bandcamp here: http://universalcurrency.bandcamp.com/track/live-eyedrum-2013-07-29