Film documents bond between joy of life, pain of passing

Several jazz funerals are depicted in the film, including the legendary early jazz stalwart Papa John Joseph, second-generation stars Danny Barker and Louis Barbarin, civil rights lawyer Lolis Elie Sr. and blues song-stress "Lady Linda" Young La-cen. In Lacen's case, the scene included a full-on jam session in the funeral parlor, a truly remarkable sight. More striking still was a similar display inside of a Catholic church - St. Augustine's, one of the oldest Black parishes in America - during or after the funeral Mass for Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr., a leader in the Mardi Gras Indian community.