Almost Blue (1993)
장르 : 스릴러, 드라마
상영시간 : 1시간 25분
연출 : Keoni Waxman
시놉시스
The young jazz saxophonist Morris Poole is at the height of his career. When his wife dies he is almost overcome by grief and blames himself. When after a while he finds a new love, he ends up in a situation that reminds him of his wife's mysterious death.
콘래드 존슨과 캐시미어 스테이지 밴드 이야기. 콘래드 존슨은 별 볼 일 없는 학교 재즈 밴드를 전설적인 펑크 집단으로 만든다. 그로부터 35년이 지나고, 학생들은 자신들의 인생을 바꿔놓은 존슨 교수에게 경의를 표하는 무대를 마련하기로 한다. 악기에 쌓인 먼지를 털어내고 다시 돌아온 무대 위에 변치 않은 그들의 음악 세계가 다시 펼쳐진다. (2011년 제8회 EBS 국제다큐영화제)
Satchmo. Theer are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied twentieth-century American culture. He revolutionized the world of music and became one of the nation's most influential entertainers. No other performer of his era has such a profound effect as a singer as well as an instrumentalist.
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
One of music's most magnetic performers, George Benson shines in this live performance. Recorder at Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Ireland this performance highlights the versatility of George Benson. With guest appearances by jazz legend Joe Sample, the BBC Big Band, and musicians from the Ulster Orchestra, George delights his fans with his straight ahead jazz hits, contemporary R&B classics, and fresh interpretations of elegant and timeless standards.
Nikki Yanofsky live in Montreal (2010).
This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-WWII European Jazz and free improvisation. Archival footage, rehearsal / performance sequences and interviews with both Mengelberg (the "godfather of Dutch improvised music") and key collaborators provide a clear insight in Mengelberg's original way of thinking and way of working.
In 1965, during eminent trumpeter Louis Armstrong’s visit to Prague, Jan Spata then a young promising documentary filmmaker, created the report 'Hallo Satchmo'.
The picture brings interviews with the participants of the 1st São Paulo Jazz Festival that occurred in Anhembi Conventions Palace in September 1978 and reunited musicians, composers and singers from all around the world.
Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring some of the greatest musicians of all time, she never ceased to astound those who heard her play. But for a Black woman in the early 1900s, life as a star did not come easy.
Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz improviser. In 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge produced Saxophone Colossus, a feature-length portrait of Rollins, named after one of his most celebrated albums.
Shot in New York, Cape Town, St Helena and the Atlantic Ocean, Sathima's Windsong, is a lyrical portrait of South African jazz singer, Sathima Bea Benjamin. In her Chelsea Hotel apartment, home for over thirty years, she patches together her journeys, from apartheid's 'pattern of brokenness', to a chance meeting and recording with Duke Ellington in Paris, to making a life in New York. The narrative of her journeys are inter-woven with her music and the musings of folks who know her work. Like her haunting song, Windsong, the film is a meditation on displacement, exile and belonging.
A pirate radio, the girl next door, and a test of friendship.
Take an in-depth look at the life and talent of the trailblazing musician who conquered racial barriers to leave an indelible mark on the jazz world.
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities.
Documenting Louis Armstrong's appearance at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival.
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.
In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor sax legend Lester Young.
스웨덴의 작은 마을 출신인 모니카는 어린 딸과 가족의 품을 떠나 재즈 가수의 꿈을 키운다. 아름답고 매력적인 그녀는 마침내 스톡홀름에서 성공적인 데뷔로 재즈 가수의 길에 들어서고 유명 가수들과 배우들에 둘러싸여 화려한 나날을 보낸다. 하지만 유명세와 성공의 이면에 도사리고 있는 어두운 현실을 직시하게 되면서 일상이 조금씩 흔들리기 시작한다. 알코올로 하루하루를 버티던 그녀는 어느 날, 다량의 수면제 복용 후 깨진 유리잔에 발을 베인 채 쓰러져있는 모니카가 발견되는데… 그녀는 다시 예전의 모습으로 돌아갈 수 있을까?
