Borough Of Manhattan Comminity College
199 Chambers St, New York, NY 10007
USA
Scenes through the Cinema Lens event
Filmmakers don’t always get it right when they put jazz into their films, but when they do, we should celebrate. In fact, we should celebrate when all we get is a good opportunity to watch great jazz artists in a bad film. How else can we see them? We’ll see Benny Goodman with his quartet and big band in Hollywood Hotel (1937), Nat King Cole in The Blue Gardenia (1953), Duke Ellington in Murder at the Vanities (1934), and much more.
“Scenes Through the Cinema Lens” is a film retrospective focusing on the performing arts curated by Krin Gabbard, professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia University. He is also the author of Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus and Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture.