Antwort auf: Jazz-Filme

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Kennt jemand „Passin‘ Through“ von Larry Clark (Grossneffe von Sonny Clark, weiss ich auch gerade erst seit eben)? Im MOMA läuft eine Retro und Richard Brody hat aus diesem Anlass einen schönen Text über den Film geschrieben:

“Passing Through” is built on a historical framework of the business of jazz—the connections among night clubs, the record industry, and the underworld that made the world of classic jazz a perilous one, all the more so because of racist indifference to the fate of Black artists. When Charles Mingus, the great bass player, composer, and bandleader, established a record company in the early nineteen-fifties to present modern jazz as he and other musicians saw fit, gangsters threatened him and blocked the company’s albums from distribution in record stores. When, later in the decade, the saxophonist Gigi Gryce formed a music-publishing company and a record label, he faced similar threats. At a time when modern jazz was thriving, musicians were sometimes paid (even by bandleaders) in drugs or offered pittances for sessions in order to feed their habits. “Passing Through” distills the history of mob brutality toward jazz artists into a drama of one young saxophonist in Los Angeles and his own small but passionate circle of musicians.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/one-of-the-greatest-movies-about-jazz

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