JAZZ IZ ART EXPO - Screening Room "The JAZZ LOFT" at True Blue Jazz Festival

Hosted by Director Sara Fishko with discussion following the screening.
Between 1957 and 1965 in Ne
“The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith,” a fascinating documentary directed by Sara Fishko, tells the story of Smith’s peculiar endeavor and pays conscientious tribute to the man’s artistry. It also tells several other discrete stories within the larger narrative. Superb portraits of the arranger and composer Hall Overton and the protean saxophonist Zoot Sims figure here. The Icarus-like rise and fall of Ron Free, a jazz drummer from the South, is largely related by Mr...

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Hosted by Director Sara Fishko with discussion following the screening.
Between 1957 and 1965 in Ne
“The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith,” a fascinating documentary directed by Sara Fishko, tells the story of Smith’s peculiar endeavor and pays conscientious tribute to the man’s artistry. It also tells several other discrete stories within the larger narrative. Superb portraits of the arranger and composer Hall Overton and the protean saxophonist Zoot Sims figure here. The Icarus-like rise and fall of Ron Free, a jazz drummer from the South, is largely related by Mr. Free himself. The preparations for Thelonious Monk’s celebrated 1959 big-band concert at Town Hall are laid out in thrilling detail in the last third of the movie. • Glenn Kenny -  New YorkTimes

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