Be a part of host Doug Crane on Wednesday, March 27, starting at 8 p.m. as the Night Defeat calls it a wrap for Jazz Goes to the Videos for 2024.
Very well deal with you to Faces Underneath the Influence, a Jazz Tribute to John Cassavetes composed, organized, and performed by trumpet player and band chief Tim Hagans that characteristics the German NDR Large Band. Truly worth noting: that it was the NDR Large Band that commissioned Tim to produce it.
In Tims essay he wrote to accompany the recording, he decided to compose songs that describes the emotional improvement that every single character activities rather than compose episodic descriptions.
Charles Mingus wrote the rating for Shadows, the initial film directed by Cassavetes in 1959. 3 years later, Cassavetes directed a film for Paramount termed Far too Late Blues that starred Bobby Darin. David Raskin wrote the score which was executed by Benny Carter, Shelly Manne, Pink Mitchell, Jimmy Rowles, and other folks.
Cassavetes would usually consider roles in Hollywood movie and Tv productions to subsidize his function as an impartial filmmaker. He was nominated for Most effective Supporting Actor in 1967 for his role in The Soiled Dozen.
Faces, Cassavetes second movie which he both equally financed and directed was nominated in 1968 for Greatest Unique Screenplay, Most effective Supporting Actor, and Ideal Supporting Actress.
His 1974 movie A Girl Beneath the Impact was nominated for two Academy Awards, just one for Cassavetes as Finest Director and the other for his spouse Gena Rowlands as Greatest Actress.
He been given a Life time Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in 1986. He handed absent in early 1989 at the age of 59.
As several jazz followers now know, March 27, 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the delivery of jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan. Perfectly include things like a variety of her common recordings as element of the evening exhibit.