Titles include 'The Cool World,' 'A Man Called Adam' and 'Dancing the Twist in Bamako'
As for the rest of the series, there are previously released films, including a couple you can’t find on any streaming outlet. On Saturday, there will be a 35mm screening of “The Cool World,” a 1965 drama from the maverick filmmaker Shirley Clarke. This story of a Harlem street gang features music from jazz pianist Mal Wardron and the Dizzy Gillespie Quartet.
The film will be preceded by “Daybreak Express,” a shot-on-16mm, 1953 short that marks the debut of acclaimed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker . The following Friday, there will be another 35mm screening of a ‘60’s rarity. In the 1966 film “A Man Called Adam,” directed by Leo Penn , Sammy Davis, Jr. plays a jazz cornetist who has issues with his health, his past, and the people in his life . Nat Adderley provides the trumpet performances Davis mimics on-screen.
On June 23, a Houston saxophonist will get some screen time in “Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story,” a 1992 doc directed by Arthur Elgort . “It is a shame that this film is not readily available, especially for Houston jazz lovers,” says Lucas. “Not only because he’s a legend, but there are so many people in that documentary. It was filmed in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s.
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