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Post by gst on Mar 20, 2017 20:51:46 GMT
Looks interesting. Perhaps we'll start see more documentaries about jazz. Summary: On a snowy night in February 1972, the 33 year old jazz trumpet star Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife, Helen, during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts the people who knew the Morgans. Helen served time for the crime and, following her release, retreated into obscurity. Over 20 years later, a chance encounter led her to give a remarkable interview. Helen’s revealing audio “testimony” acts as a refrain throughout the film, which draws together a wealth of archival photographs and footage, notable talking heads and incredible jazz music to tell the ill-fated pair’s story. I Called Him Morgan
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Post by Rich on Mar 20, 2017 20:58:12 GMT
Saw it two weeks ago in NYC. Well done and enlightening.
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Post by gst on Mar 23, 2017 15:41:17 GMT
Saw it two weeks ago in NYC. Well done and enlightening. Excellent. I'll have to keep an eye out for this and the Coltrane doc when they're available online.
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Post by Fredrik on Apr 1, 2017 16:57:38 GMT
It was premiered yesterday here in Stockholm. I will try and catch it sometime next week. Really looking forward to see it, as Morgan is my favorite trumpeter of all time. I will report back when I've seen it..
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Post by Fredrik on Apr 7, 2017 11:56:23 GMT
I've seen it now. A great documentary. Very nice photography that really presents itself great on the big screen. Very haunting. It's not a very uplifting piece, that's for sure, because we all know what happened. But very interesting. Well worth seeing. Kasper Collin, the director is a fellow Swede, which is cool, and he has also made another documentary about Albert Ayler, which I need to check out.
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Post by gst on Apr 7, 2017 15:34:30 GMT
I've seen it now. A great documentary. Very nice photography that really presents itself great on the big screen. Very haunting. It's not a very uplifting piece, that's for sure, because we all know what happened. But very interesting. Well worth seeing. Kasper Collin, the director is a fellow Swede, which is cool, and he has also made another documentary about Albert Ayler, which I need to check out. Thanks for the update Fredrik. I'm going to put this one on my list and the Alyer one as well.
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Post by gst on Apr 8, 2017 20:43:54 GMT
Anyone know where I can buy a digital copy of the Ayler doc? I can't see to find it anywhere.
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Post by gst on Apr 9, 2017 17:54:14 GMT
I just saw the Ayler documentary online. Very powerful and interesting. I highly recommend it. I've actually started listening to him now, and he created such penetrating, soulful music. Very emotional and profound. I will probably end up buying "Spiritual Unity" before long. Any chance you could share the link?
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Post by Fredrik on Apr 9, 2017 20:59:55 GMT
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Post by DaveS on May 9, 2017 14:44:57 GMT
Saw the movie last week. Highly recommended.
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Post by jazzhead on Aug 8, 2017 23:58:59 GMT
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Post by gst on Aug 9, 2017 15:04:46 GMT
Watched this over the weekend and it was really good.
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Post by gregorythefish on Aug 9, 2017 17:22:20 GMT
i watched it recently, too. simply outstanding. and i don't really like films of any kind, in general.
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Post by alunsevern on Sept 25, 2017 8:30:46 GMT
I'm not a great Morgan fan, and initially I avoided this documentary because of that and also because I had recently watched Don Cheadle's astonishingly poor MILES AHEAD (which of course isn't a documentary). But I was wrong on both counts. I see that one review said that I CALLED HIM MORGAN is "a textural triumph" and that it isn't so much a jazz documentary as a documentary _in_ jazz -- and I thought this was absolutely right. The pacing, the texture of the piece, the subtle rhythm it has, the recreated winter blizzard footage which recurs throughout like a favoured motif... Altogether excellent. It will be seen in the future as a classic of jazz documentary making, I don't think there's any doubt about that.Thanks to GST who originally mentioned it.
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Post by clifford on Sept 25, 2017 15:24:58 GMT
Yeah, agreed + well put Alun.
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