Gabrielle Haker
Series
Criterion collection volume 1122
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 17 cm, folded to 17 x 12)
Description
It is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character that was nominated for an Oscar, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching...