“Vous êtes swing!" : John & Ron
A relatively short-lived cable access talk show from the 80's, hosted by two jazz drummers and featuring mainly - but not exclusively - ...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 5: 17-20)
17. Hermann Slobbe (Johan van der Keuken, 1966) Archie Shepp When making a film about blind children a few years earlier, Van Der Keuken...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 4: 13-16)
13. Wealth of a Nation (William Greaves, 1966) Bill Dixon This was William Greaves’ first independent film and one of two he would direct...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 3: 9-12)
9. Catalog (John Whitney 1961) Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman: the name alone is a resonance of risk, of risk itself. Ornette Coleman on...
"Snore on my solo, bitch"
Just Miles being Miles.....
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 2: 5-8)
5. At Dawn Overcoming all Difficulties (Jannik Hastrup, 1972) Yusef Lateef This is one of Hastrup’s six animated shorts on the history of...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 1: 1-4)
1.Herbie (George Lucas, Paul Golding, 1966) Herbie Hancock In contemporary parlance, wanky. I do have a thing for wanky 16mm though, even...
44 recommended jazz docs
1. Don Cherry (Jean-Noël Delamare, Nathalie Perrey, 1973) Opens like Alphaville meets Jodorowsky meets Brother from Another Planet and...
4 striking Lee Morgan covers
Joey DeFrancesco - Ceora (2002) LP Title: Live: The Authorized Bootleg Joey DeFrancesco (organ) George Coleman (tenor sax) Jake Langley...
Dear John: 5 Naimas
Written as a love letter to his first wife, Naima Grubb, of all the compositions on John Coltrane’s mighty “Giant Steps”, “Naima” is the...
