Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:38:36 +0000
From: Alastair Dickson <adickson-AT-stirmargrev.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Jazz film


In article <000901c07f00$04ac4460$ca08bd18-AT-hughbone>, hugh bone
<hbone-AT-optonline.net> writes
>Yeah, I said overkill in other words.
>
>I posted to film-theory because the three minutes of film behind the trumpet
>and piano performance of "Westend Blues" is
>a unique experience of sound and image.
>
>Is there a jazz film you reccomend?

"Sven Klang's Combo" is the best narrative jazz film I've seen, in
catching the transitional modernism at the end of the 1950s through the
character of a Dolphy/Mingus saxophonist playing out of his native
situation in Scandinavia.

Once one gets past the general cheapness/corniness, I have a great
affection for "Space is the Place", featuring Sun Ra, with its "Seventh
Seal" parodies and presumably improvised scenes such as Ra proselytising
in the community centre.  

But the film I would really like to see is Michael Snow's "New York Eye
and Ear Control"...

-- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland
-- <adickson-AT-stirmargrev.demon.co.uk>


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