HUM 396 - Jazz in Film and Literature: Research Topic Resources

Sophie Huber, Director - 2019. 87 minutes
Kanopy: "One of the most important record labels in the history of jazz -- and, by extension, that of American music -- BLUE NOTE RECORDS has been home to such groundbreaking artists as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and Art Blakey. Through rare archival footage, current recording sessions and conversations with jazz icons and today's groundbreaking musicians, this thrilling documentary reveals a powerful mission and illuminates the vital connections between jazz and hip hop."

Bert Stern, Director - 1959. 83 minutes
Kanopy: "Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning."

Sara Fishko, Director - 2016. 89 minutes.
Kanopy: "In the 1950s, dozens of jazz musicians jam night after night in a dilapidated New York loft building, not realizing they are all being captured in sound and pictures by acclaimed LIFE Magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, who lives in the loft space next door.....In a layering of interviews, vignettes and powerful melodies from famed musicians, director and WNYC producer Sara Fishko (Fishko Files) recreates the vibrant culture of New York's mid-century jazz era for the modern day viewer, resurrecting the voices captured in each of Smith's evocative photographs."

Website: "Linked Jazz...Revealing the Relationships of the Jazz Community...draws on jazz history materials in digital format to expose relationships between musicians and reveal their community network."

Library of Congress Summary: "A handsome new art book marks the 60th anniversary of Art Kane's iconic "Harlem 1958" photograph (also known as "A Great Day in Harlem"), a glimpse of jazz history documenting a now-legendary gathering of 57 jazz artists on the steps of a Harlem brownstone. Larry Appelbaum talks with the photographer's son Jonathan Kane and saxophonist Benny Golson, one of two living musicians captured in this eloquent image." 01:04:04 (October 29, 2019)