Tenor saxophone

Fred Anderson 80th Birthday Bash: Live at the Velvet Lounge (2009)

Actors: Bob Koester (producer), Steve Wagner (editor), Tom Koester (director), Chad Taylor (actor), Fred Anderson (actor), Henry Grimes (actor), Jeff Parker (actor), Harrison Bankhead (actor),

Genres: Music,

The Monkees: Live Summer Tour (2002)

Actors: Micky Dolenz (actor), Davy Jones (actor), Peter Tork (actor), David Fishof (miscellaneous crew), George Xhilone (miscellaneous crew), Kevin Cain (producer), Eric Biondo (actor), Michael A. Joseph (director), David Alexander (actor), David Alexander (actor), Steven Ship (producer), Sandy Gennaro (actor), Jerry Renino (actor), Jerry Renino (actor), Avira Maloney (actress),

Genres: Music,

Calle 54 (2000)

Actors: Fernando Trueba (director), Fernando Trueba (producer), Graeme Revell (composer), Carmen Frías (editor), Fabienne Servan-Schreiber (producer), Fernando Trueba (writer), Domenico Procacci (producer), Tito Puente (actor), Cristina Huete (producer), Eduardo Lytton (miscellaneous crew), Gato Barbieri (actor), Jessica Berman (producer), Bebo Valdés (actor), Laurence Miller (producer), Chucho Valdés (actor),

Plot: Fernando Trueba presents his love affair with Latin jazz, his camera following 13 giants into the studio. Trueba drapes walls with single colors - red for Jerry González and the Fort Apache band, white for Tito Puente; his camera is close to faces, instruments, hands, and feet; bands' colors contrast with walls or their leader's clothes. Chucho Valdés does a pyrotechnic solo then joins his aged father Bebo for a subdued duet. Puntilla Ríos takes us to Africa, Chano Domínguez to a marriage of jazz and Flamenco, and Eliane Elias, her shoe-less foot on the pedal, to gorgeous and muscular elegance. With Paquito, Cachao, Patato, Chico, Gato, and Michel Camilo, we travel Calle 54.

Keywords: concert-film, jazz, latin-america, latina, new-jersey, number-in-title, performance, session
Genres: Documentary, Music,

Calle 54 (2000)

Actors: Fernando Trueba (director), Fernando Trueba (producer), Graeme Revell (composer), Carmen Frías (editor), Fabienne Servan-Schreiber (producer), Fernando Trueba (writer), Domenico Procacci (producer), Tito Puente (actor), Cristina Huete (producer), Eduardo Lytton (miscellaneous crew), Gato Barbieri (actor), Jessica Berman (producer), Bebo Valdés (actor), Laurence Miller (producer), Chucho Valdés (actor),

Plot: Fernando Trueba presents his love affair with Latin jazz, his camera following 13 giants into the studio. Trueba drapes walls with single colors - red for Jerry González and the Fort Apache band, white for Tito Puente; his camera is close to faces, instruments, hands, and feet; bands' colors contrast with walls or their leader's clothes. Chucho Valdés does a pyrotechnic solo then joins his aged father Bebo for a subdued duet. Puntilla Ríos takes us to Africa, Chano Domínguez to a marriage of jazz and Flamenco, and Eliane Elias, her shoe-less foot on the pedal, to gorgeous and muscular elegance. With Paquito, Cachao, Patato, Chico, Gato, and Michel Camilo, we travel Calle 54.

Keywords: concert-film, jazz, latin-america, latina, new-jersey, number-in-title, performance, session
Genres: Documentary, Music,

The Man Who Counted (1998)

Actors: Shirley Knight (actress), John Considine (actor), Buck Henry (actor), Todd Boekelheide (composer), Michael McKean (actor), Jay Johnson (miscellaneous crew), Curtiss Clayton (editor), Curtiss Clayton (writer), Curtiss Clayton (director), Jim Czarnecki (actor), Amy E. Duddleston (miscellaneous crew), Robert Grahamjones (editor), Ryan Link (actor), Gary Taylor (actor), Sarah George (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Short,

Vesnici dzeza: Art Blackey, Benny Green (1988)

Actors: Jovan Ristic (director), Art Blakey (actor), Benny Green (actor), Robin Eubanks (actor), Javon Jackson (actor), Phillip Harper (actor), Leon Dorsey (actor),

Genres: Music,

'Round Midnight (1986)

Actors: Irwin Winkler (producer), Herbie Hancock (composer), Martin Scorsese (actor), Alain Sarde (actor), Liliane Rovère (actress), Bertrand Tavernier (writer), Noël Simsolo (actor), John Berry (actor), Herbie Hancock (actor), Eddy Mitchell (actor), François Cluzet (actor), Philippe Noiret (actor), Arthur French (actor), Bertrand Tavernier (director), Christine Pascal (actress),

Plot: In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the 1950's New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer to play in Paris, where, like many other black American musicians at the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity that is not based upon the color of his skin. A Parisian man who is obsessed with Turner's music befriends him and attempts to save Turner from himself. Although for Dale the damage is already done, his poignant relationship with the man and his young daughter re-kindles his spirit and his music as the end draws near.

Keywords: alcohol-abuse, alcoholic, alcoholism, apostrophe-in-title, black-artist, death-of-an-artist, expatriate, failed-artist, father-daughter-relationship, friendship
Genres: Drama, Music,
Taglines: The music and the magic come together...

Quotes:

Dale: I hope, Lady Francis, that we live long enough to see an avenue named after Charlie Parker, a Lester Young Park, a Duke Ellington Square. And even, a street named Dale Turner.

Dale: Aimez-vous basketball?

Hershell: You know who's going to be waiting for you at the airfield in Paris, don't you?... You.

Eddie Wayne: If you had seen Hershell and Dale play together, Francis, it's something that you could never forget. They were so new and so different and yet so close. Maybe it was all those memories that made Dale leave for Paris that Friday morning. Maybe what he saw in Hershell's eyes was too frightening and too familiar.

Ace: It would be the best city in the world if I could just find some okra.::Buttercup: What the hell do you know about Paris, Ace? You don't do nothin' but stay in that damn room in your robe and slippers cooking all day.::Ace: At least I'm doing it in Paris.

Dale: Well, this establishment has never been known for its... conviviality.

Dale: Ben, just one vin rouge.::Ben: Buttercup says no.::Dale: Buttercup is really not my mother. Come on, man!::Ben: Makes you sick, Dale.::Dale: Not good wine. Just don't serve me that stuff you serve your customers.

Dale: They're always paying all the wrong people in this world.

[Drunken man downs liquor and passes out flat on his back]::Dale: S'il vous plait, I would like to have the same thing he had.

Dale: You know, it just occurred to me that bebop was invented by the cats who did get out of the army.