There is an engrossing ECM recording of the piece, recorded during a performance in Amsterdam in 2000.
The 25-minute piece, recorded with her vocal group Roomful of Teeth, has recently been released as an EP on iTunes, Amazon and at Spotify.
At one point, she shows us video footage of an earlier version of the piece, recorded in Berlin last year, then she dances alongside the image from her past.
The piece, recorded in 1950 with the saxophonist Charlie Parker as the soloist, was perhaps the first major work to marry classical composition and Latin big-band sounds.
Another version of that piece, recorded with a full band including the jazz bassist Ron Carter, was released on Mr. Scott-Heron's second album, "Pieces of a Man," in 1971.
The detailed descriptions are somewhat reminiscent of "New Horizons in Music Appreciation," a piece recorded in 1967 by Peter Schickele, the composer and broadcaster who is the humorist behind P.D.Q.
"Stay" was another riff-driven funk piece, "recorded very much in our cocaine frenzy", according to Alomar.
The first piece recorded, the twenty-five-minute epic "In the Presence of Enemies," was described by Petrucci as the "epitome of a Dream Theater creation".
Images of the Station and of space provided to the band by NASA were presented in a video montage during the piece, recorded for the North American leg of the tour.
Inspired by a friend group that included Robert Rauschenberg, Giorno effectively turned his poems into multimedia pieces, recording his poetry with synthesizers to create sound installations and developing the famous Dial-A-Poem.
