Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

October. 01,2018

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary Music

Keywords：

World War I Jazz Broadway

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Combines footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era to re-tell the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem Hell Fighters" of World War I, Broadway Theatre, the Civil Rights movement, and decades of Black cultural development.

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