Cisco Bradley

Cisco Bradley is a director, author, and professor at the Pratt Institute, where he teaches the history and aesthetics of music from the African diaspora and runs the Music and Migration Lab. He has founded three multimedia organizations that work to shed light on musicians operating in this sphere: New Revolution Films, www.jazzrightnow.com, and the Free Jazz Oral History Project. He is the author of four books including I Hear Freedom: The Great Migration, Free Jazz, and Black Power (Columbia University Press, 2025), The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront (2023), and Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (2021). He has received support for his work from the Institute of Citizens and Scholars, the New York State Council of the Arts, and the Brooklyn Arts Council, among others. Take Me to Fendika is his first documentary film.