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Subgenre Sampler
Calle 54 (2000)
- Dir. Fernando Trueba
- A luxurious and overdue tribute to the charms of Latin jazz, dir. Tueba’s (BELLE EPOQUE) musical passion. Interviews with greats like Tito…
Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000)- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron… - Charming light drama about a recently–widowed Judi Dench who decides to revive her saxophone playing, eventually getting the idea to reunite…
Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on Me (2000)- Dir. Nicholas Triandafyllidis
Feat. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Featuring dozens of confidential interviews and footage of Screamin' Jay Hawkins final live performances, this film chronicles the blues legend's…
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
- A handful of sprightly elderly Cuban musicians assembled in 1996 by guitarist Ry Cooder produced, with their soulful, melodic jazz sound, the biggest…
Ella Fitzgerald - Something to Live For (1999)- Dir. Charlotte Zwerin
- A modest and carefully selected musical 'album' of jazz singer Fitzgerald's greatest years. Not really biographical in its focus, this…
Genghis Blues (1999)- Dir. Roko Belic
- Absorbing, stranger–than–fiction tale of San Francisco singer Paul Pena’s passion for Tuvan ‘Throat–singing’…
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999)- Dir. St. Clair Bourne
- Documentary exploring the life and career of Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and political activist whose distinctive bass baritone is heard on some…
Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, The (1999)- Produced after Ken Burns’ JAZZ, yet managing to illuminate ‘Satchmo’s’ life and times on several new levels, this artful collage of…
Great Day in Harlem, A (1998)- Dir. Jean Bach
- Featuring a panorama of interviews on the 1950s heydays of Harlem jazz, this Oscar–nominated doco centres round a famous photograph of 50 odd…
Swing (1998)- Dir. Nick Mead
Feat. Hugo Speer, Clarence Clemmons, Lisa Stansfield… - Thoroughly in the mould of THE COMMITMENTS, this comic celebration of how music can relieve the drudgery of life casts Hugo Speer as an incarcerated…
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