Sentences with phrase «story of jazz»

«Jelly's Last Jam» A musical that tells the story of jazz through a notorious musician, Jelly Roll Morton.

Guidall's calm, assured reading of Christensen's rhythmic verses recounting the story of jazz musician Django Reinhardt, lovely background music, and authentic sound effects combine in this exceptional read - along.

The film, from «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle, tells the love story of a jazz pianist and an aspiring actor.

Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, the filmmaker Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great.

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But don't get too jazzed about stories of banks eliminating it: They're not really.

Claibrone's heartfelt apology reminded me a little of Donald Miller's story of the «confession booth,» recounted in Blue Like Jazz, in which Miller and a group of young Christians apologized to their Reed College classmates for everything from the Crusades to televangelists.

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The book «started out as a way to tell the story of the science that I already knew to try to get people jazzed about science,» he explains.

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This is the story of Chet Baker, the famous jazz trumpeter who in the mid 20th Century captivated jazz audiences and fellow musicians until his consumption with heroin destroyed him.

Smokey rooms, smooth jazz and a man with a briefcase: FRAMED has all the components of a noir story shuffled in a really smart puzzle game.

But the film — the story a young jazz drummer (Miles Teller) who attends one of the best music schools in the country under the tutelage of the school's fearsome maestro of jazz played by J.K. Simmons — would have to be a breakout hit to make the increasingly mainstream ranks of Oscar's big category.

Damien Chazelle's film captures the story of Mia, an aspiring actress, and Sebastian, a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for destroying hopes and breaking hearts.

Movie review of «Max Rose»: Jerry Lewis, who recently turned 90, is back with this story about a bitter, recently widowed jazz pianist.

Since it's an oddball story to begin with, Michael produces an equally oddball score, with elements of ragtime, old - fashioned jazz, and a touch of the recently rediscovered Klezmer style of music.

Bernard Herrmann, a longtime collaborator with Alfred Hitchcock, composed fabulous music that reflects the emotional heart of the entire story — the sultry jazz reluctantly giving way to a doomed, militaristic beat, reminiscent of the brilliant score from Stanley Kubrick's «The Killing» 1956.

1 and 2 (Netflix, Feb. 1) and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (Netflix and Hulu, Feb. 1), though of the films that came out yesterday, we're most jazzed about Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Netflix, Feb. 1), the deeply underrated John C. Reilly vehicle that parodied the musician biopic — which has some great songs, too.

1 «Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story» (Todd Haynes, 1987) 2 «Don't Look Back» (DA Pennebaker, 1967)-- Bob Dylan 3 «Gim me Shelter» (David Maysles / Albert Maysles / Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)-- Rolling Stones 4 «24 Hour Party People» (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)-- Manchester scene 5 «Topsy - Turvy» (Mike Leigh, 1999)-- Gilbert and Sullivan 6 «Monterey Pop» (DA Pennebaker, 1968)-- concert 7 «Be Here to Love Me» (Margaret Brown, 2004)-- Townes Van Zandt 8 «Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould» (Francois Girard, 1993)-- Glenn Gould 9 «Cocksucker Blues» (Robert Frank, 1972)-- Rolling Stones 10 «Bird» (Clint Eastwood, 1988)-- Charlie Parker 11 «The Last Waltz» (Martin Scorsese, 1978)-- The Band & Friends farewell concert 12 «Rude Boy» (Jack Hazan, David Mingay, 1980)-- The Clash 13 «Scott Walker: 30 Century Man» (Stephen Kijak, 2006)-- Scott Walker 14 «Bound for Glory» (Hal Ashby, 1976)-- Woody Guthrie 15 «The Decline of Western Civilization Parts I & II» (Penelope Spheeris, 1981, 1988)-- LA punk;»80s metal & hair bands 16 «The Devil and Daniel Johnston» (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005)-- Daniel Johnston 17 «Sweet Dreams» (Karel Reisz, 1982)-- Patsy Cline 18 «Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor» (Don McGlynn, 1982)-- Art Pepper 19 «Elgar» (Ken Russell, 1962)-- Edward Elgar 20 «Rust Never Sleeps» (Neil Young, 1979)-- Neil Young 21 «The Future is Unwritten» (Julien Temple, 2006)-- Joe Strummer 22 «DiG!»

I am a big fan of all four of them, so I was jazzed that we'd see a thrilling and fresh take on this story.

The «untitled Nina Simone project» — which has been in the works for several years but was on hold until now due to lack of funding — will tell the story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist who became known as the «High Priestess of Soul,» including her rise to fame, her role in the Civil Rights movement, and her relationship with her manager.

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

Damien Chazelle's story of a young jazz musician who strives to be the best and the abusive band conductor who pushes him to the brink is tense and crescendos to a finale that is arguably the best of the year.

It tells the story of an aspiring actress, played by Emma Stone, and a jazz musician, played by Ryan Gosling, who sing and dance their way around Los Angeles.

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All modern animated content in movies, from Jabba the Hut to «Toy Story,» springs from those years of invention at Disney, he says: «The same principles apply everywhere, and those principles were all discovered under one roof, decades ago by a bunch of young punks jazzed up about creating something.»

I Called Him Morgan This docu by Kasper Collin tells the story of the 1972 murder of celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan by Morgan's wife.

Born To Be Blue tells the tragic story of legendary Cool Jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker — sort of.

Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.

December 21, 2017 • In jazz, the best albums of the year only tell part of the story.

It's going to be like jazz, you'll feel the spirit of the original story but it'll be re-invigorated and vital,» said Lelio.

In a story that would be kind of wacky and fun if it didn't concern two awful people, The Hollywood Reporter says that Woody Allen was supposed to play clarinet with his jazz band at the wedding of former Amazon Studios head Roy Price before the allegations about him being a harassing creep came out and his fiancée...

A different description of the story from SlashFilm earlier this year explains that J.K. Simmons plays a «brutal jazz orchestra teacher», training Miles Teller who is trying desperately not to lose his mind as he tries to become the top percussionist in one of the most illustrious jazz orchestras in the country.

In the video above, he shares stories about some of the movies most near and dear to him, including Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and John Frankenheimer's Seconds — which he first saw while attending film school at USC, where he also worked as a projectionist — and Mike Nichols's The Graduate and Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, which brought home to him the «power of editing.»

And this is especially true, not only given to tough road of a musical that has no pre-established fan base, as well as one that incorporates so many jazz pieces that can't be made into pop tunes, along with a romance that doesn't actually give those who just want a sweeping love story something to fawn over as they leave the theater.

Screenwriter: Jody Lee Lipes This scripted adaptation of a 1958 jazz ballet by Jerome Robbins (West Side Story) takes the original choreography and returns it to the streets that inspired it in this tale of disaffected urban youth.

The story of a talented young jazz drummer and his cruelly sadistic mentor features powerful performances from Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons and editing so intricate and masterful, it feels like jazz itself.

Director Sagal (Night Gallery, Girl Happy), working with the script by the Corringtons (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Boxcar Bertha), brings Matheson's story to the 1970s, complete with hip jazz - funk soundtrack, blaxploitation elements, and hippie jargon and tie - ins.

Damien Chazelle's second film is the story of two struggling artists — jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and wannabe actor Mia (Emma Stone)-- who don't exactly meet cute, then do before going on to have a very real relationship (cleverly camouflaged as piece of fluff musical).

While her co-star Ryan Gosling, in the role of a purist jazz musician with aspirations and plans of his own, equally inhabits this joyous yet heartbreaking story of young lovers with incompatible ambitions, it is Stone's Mia that eventually steals the show and occupied the chatter in the mountains.

This time, they focus of old jazz standards, making them an integral part of the story.

There's a familiarity in both the setting and the structure of this low - budget ensemble drama, which intercuts five stories of relationship troubles among New Yorkers, from an eager journalist (Abbi Jacobson) tracking a murder case to a jazz aficionado (Bene Coopersmith) chasing down a rare vinyl record.

Get really creative with your idea of what a yield can be: excited parents, a newspaper story, jazzed kids, pumpkins.

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In this stunningly researched novel, Nicole Mones not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little - known in the West.

Poetic vignettes depict the dramatic story of a band of African American soldiers — who are also jazz musicians — during WWI.

In spare, simple, rhythmic verses, Christensen tells the story of a young Gypsy boy who overcame a physical disability to play the guitar in a way that was perfect for the syncopated jazz style.

While this story might seem simple enough, Chabon sprinkles it with doses of trivia from the 70s: blaxploitation movies (see Beyond the Book), and jazz, soul and funk music; as well as cult movie classics - a noticeable nod to Quentin Tarantino is included.

African American jazz drummer David «Panama» Albert Francis first heard stories of magical island drums from his Haitian father.

Weatherford has constructed a fictional verse memoir to tell the first - person life story of the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday.