In the summer of 1969, just weeks before the iconic Woodstock concert was held 100 miles north, the Harlem Cultural Festival presented six weeks of concerts featuring some of the greatest jazz and soul talent of the day, including Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, and more. The concerts were filmed but no television network or movie studio showed any interest at the time. Over 50 years later, director Questlove put together this marvelous film about the music and the times, which Rolling Stone called, “a tribute to the artists and, just as importantly, their audience — which is what makes it not just a great concert film but a great documentary, period.”
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