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1) Django
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Reinhardt, elegantly interpreted by Reda Kateb (A Prophet, Zero Dark Thirty), is the toast of 1943 Paris, thrilling audiences with his distinctive brand of "hot jazz" and charming his admirers including his muse played by Cécile de France (Hereafter, Chinese Puzzle). But even as the rise of Nazism forces Reinhardt - whose music is considered degenerate under the Third Reich - to make a daring escape from Paris, he refuses to be silenced as his music...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Financial manager by day and musician by night, Nate Holden hears a beautiful female voice one evening singing outside his apartment in sync while he plays his piano. Mysteriously, the voice turns out to be the coat check girl at the local jazz club. After Nate strikes a deal with Chloe to perform with him, their chemistry undeniably becomes closer with every song they play.
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 10 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined"--Container.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jazz legend Chet Baker's tumultuous life is thrillingly re-imagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool.
5) Miles ahead
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
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...
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