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Article: Culture: JAZZ DIARY: Hot jazz blows in from the continent; Peter Bacon rounds up the latest Midlands jazz news and reviews the best new CD releases.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2005
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Byline: Peter Bacon
The cinema and jazz have always had a close relationship, though all too often it's Hollywood directors taking the easy way to give their filmstar-heavy, atmosphere-thin films a cool ambience by sticking some jazz in the background.
More integrated and rewarding collaborations between film-makers and jazz musicians are possible, however, whether it's Duke Ellington's soundtrack for Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder or Andre Previn's music for The Subterranean, or Robert Altman's Kansas City, where, unfortunately, the jazz was much ...