Trailer Alert: "Diary of a Decade: Funk Jazz Cafe"

For those who will be taking part in this year's National Black Arts Festival, here is a film that you don't want to miss... Produced, written, directed by Jason Orr, Diary of a Decade, showcases when "black music" was truly "good music" (trust me it did exist!).

This film is the story of a cultural legend as told by the innovators of an important, and in some cases overlooked, era in Black culture. Spanning the late 1980′s through to the early 2000′s, this story goes deep into the fabric of soul music, it’s definitions, it’s pioneers, it’s offspring, it’s movements, the challenges with the “mainstream” industry and the evolution of the FunkJazz Kafé, a music and arts movement born of Atlanta’s diverse musical heritage. The film covers the decade when Atlanta’s underground music scene became established on the world stage and a new generation of soul singers and musicians emerged.




Diary of a Decade will premiere July 13th at the Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.

After the film there will be a panel discussion to follow.