A group of young Black and white Chicagoans sit around a table arguing about jazz, and the argument becomes the film. Directed by Edward Bland in 1958, the picture mixes documentary voiceover and staged debate to make its case: that jazz is inseparable from Black American life, built on the tension between suffering and joy, and that white musicians can imitate its form without ever touching its content. The score and several performance sequences come from Sun Ra and his Arkestra, giving the argument a soundtrack that doubles as evidence. Archival-style footage of Chicago street life and jazz clubs is cut against the fictionalized discussion, blurring the line between essay film and drama. Bland's closing claim, that jazz as a living form is already finished, was read as a provocation in 1958 and still plays as one. Short, blunt, and often cited as one of the first films to treat jazz explicitly as a political and racial statement rather than pure entertainment.