If you're looking to Rising Tones Cross for footage of Zorn, forget it. It's a quick shot of him and Horvitz improvising in a cafe, and it's not particularly memorable. It's just there to provide a contrast to the "real" story, which is essentially the pre-history of the Vision Festival and the William Parker posse. For that stuff, it's completely memorable. For one thing, it reveals the critical role bassist Peter Kowald played in getting that "scene" organized -- to wit, it was apparently his funding that backed the Sound Unity Fest. You also get lots of insight into Parker himself, and I'd go so far as to say that Rising is the most valuable footage of Charles Gayle available anywhere. He comes off as lucid, intelligent, thoughtful and steeped in jazz history, not some raving lunatic as he's sometimes been portrayed. The performances are not complete, but many are quite extensive, and they're also telling in their own way. It's interesting, for instance, to see Horvitz in a Billy Bang-led ensemble. The lines between the Zorn and Parker camps weren't quite so stratified back then as they seem to be now. Best scene of all, though, is a big chunk of blowing by a Peter Brotzmann band that includes a front line of, get this, Brotzmann, Gayle, David S. Ware and Frank Wright. That's more firepower than the Gulf War, and they seem to be blowing completely chaotically... until the filmmaker does a slow scan across Brotzmann's score, an elaborate diagram that's as simple and elegant as an image by Mondrian. If you're interested, I notice that the filmmaker has my entire article about the film from Jazziz (much of which I've admittedly just summarized) on her website, at http://members.aol.com/filmpals/jazziz.htm It's on DVD now? Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - King Crimson, "Easy Money," 'USA' (Virgin)