Hollywood and Jazz Musicians - Day by Day with Bret Primack - 10/7/11

Has Hollywood's inaccurate portrayal of Jazz musicians adversely affected most people's perception of the music? In this episode of his daily video blog, Bret Primack ponders that possibility, with examples featuring Fred Astaire, Kirk Douglas, Sammy Davis, Jr., Denzel Washington, Forrest Whitaker, Dexter Gordon and Herbie Hancock

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hollywood
• jazz musicians
• Dexter Gordon
• herbie Hancock
• Denzel Washington
• Spike Lee

[oCoLoAoRoko]

Spot on. Couldn't agree more with you that these movies do more harm than good. I would like to see another documentary similar to straight no chaser made about someone today.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@oCoLoAoRoko Me, too. But who?  Is there anyone like Monk?

[SatchmoSings]

@JazzVideoGuy, Try to remember that "Rap" outsells Jazz and Classical music put together.

At one time, Classical Music was 30% of all record sales; now it's like 2%.

I live in New York City; we used to have three classical music stations; we now have ONE.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@SatchmoSings Thankfully we have access to wide variety of music on the web. LIve365, Pandora and Streaming radio have picked up where broadcast radio left off.

[lionelroach]

why not have jazz musicians, young and old, as special guest on the (insert host's name) Tonight Show ? ? ? o_0

[JazzVideoGuy]

@lionelroach Good idea.  Who would you suggest?

[SatchmoSings]

@JazzVideoGuy Who the hell names their kid "Thelonious?"

[lionelroach]

@JazzVideoGuy Wouldnt be interesting to hear stories/opinions from Wayne Shorter? Robert Glasper? Ravi Coltrane? Terence Blanchard? Jeff Tain Watts ? Too many to mention ..

[JazzVideoGuy]

@jplenor Thank you!

[jplenor]

Thank YOU!

;°)