[Frameworks] Jazz thread

Mon Nov 20 16:47:04 UTC 2017

I think of Cassavetes
This article may be of interest:
http://www.corpusfluxus.org/Pages/works_events/lectureMingus.html

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>    1. Re: Jazz Music and Avant-Garde Film (Jorge Lorenzo Flores Garza)
>    2. Farewell Party for Taka & Akiko Iimura TONIGHT 6-9pm,
>       Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn (LBurchill)
>    3. Re: Jack Stauffacher (Stephen Anker)
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> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:58:54 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Jazz Music and Avant-Garde Film
>
> Also, Adam Rosen and John Creson do very interesting live visuals for
> Micheal Snow's and John Oswald's CCMC concerts up in Toronto nowadays.
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> *De:* FrameWorks <frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com> en nombre de
> Beebe, Roger W. <beebe.77 at osu.edu>
> *Enviado:* jueves, 9 de noviembre de 2017 04:34 p. m.
> *Para:* Experimental Film Discussion List
> *Asunto:* Re: [Frameworks] Jazz Music and Avant-Garde Film
>
> I think I saw Michael Snow’s name invoked somewhere in this thread, but I
> don’t think anyone mentioned that he is himself a jazz musician.  I saw a
> show at Hallwall’s in Buffalo years ago where Snow where they included a
> piece called REVERBERLIN made of footage of a performance of his ensemble
> CCMC:
>
> http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/4675.html
> <http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/4675.html>
> Michael Snow - Beyond/In Western New York: Michael Snow - Film and Video -
> 10/13/07 <http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/4675.html>
> www.hallwalls.org
> Beyond/In Western New York artist Michael Snow presents an evening of
> films and videos featuring: THE LIVING ROOM (2002); TRIAGE (2004, with Carl
> Brown and soundtrack by John Kamevaar); REVERBERLIN (2006, featuring CCMC
> -- an improv ensemble founded by Snow in 1974).
>
>
> FYI,
> Roger
>
> On Nov 9, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Esperanza Collado <
> esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Albert,
>
> What a great thread! Did anyone mention Shirley Clark? Can't remember the
> title.
>
> Also, some of the animated films of Suzan Pitt use jazz music. Asparagus
> for sure.
>
> You may want to check Christopher McLain's works too... i could be wrong.
>
> Will keep thinking...
>
>
>
> El El jue, 9 nov 2017 a las 16:42, tanya g <goldeoos at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> Albert,
>
> Thank you for initiating this thread. I apologize if this was already
> mentioned but in my research I came across two others: Surprise Boogie
> (1956) direted by Albert Pierru and sponsored film *Skyscraper* by Clarke
> and Van Dyke from 1959, if memory serves.
>
> Two non-avant garde that may be nonetheless of interest are:
>
> *Cry of Jazz *(Ed Bland, 1959)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_of_Jazz
>
> Jammin' The Blues (1944)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIFJ81RIyVk
>
>
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> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering about the connections between jazz music and avant-garde
> film after watching *Bridges-Go-Round* (1958) by Shirley Clarke, with the
> soundtrack version created by Teo Macero.
>
> There should be plenty of avant-garde and experimental films where the
> soundtrack is instrumental jazz music. Maybe the field of Visual Music
> should be the most represented but i'm sure there are other films like the
> one by Michael Snow that uses, in this case, free jazz music or
> improvisation.
>
> Does anyone remember some other avant-garde films with jazz soundtracks?
>
> Right my list is as follows:
>
> *Begone Dull Care* (1949) by Norman McLaren. Music by Oscar Peterson
>
> *Films No. 1* (1948) by Harry Smith. Music by Dizzy Gillespie
>
> *Chasse des Touches* (1959) by Hy Hirsh. Music by Thelonious Monk
>
> *Catalog* (1961) by John Whitney. Music by Ornette Coleman
>
> *New York Eye and Ear Control *(1964) by Michael Snow. Music by
> Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Albert Alcoz
>
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> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:20:49 -0500
> Subject: [Frameworks] Farewell Party for Taka & Akiko Iimura TONIGHT
> 6-9pm, Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn
> Hi,
>
> If you are in New York please stop by the gallery between 6 & 9pm for a
> goodbye party for Takahiko & Akiko Iimura before they return to Tokyo after
> more than 50 years in New York.
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> There will be also projections of 16mm films and videos at various times
> throughout the evening.
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> More info is here: https://goo.gl/ugKKTz
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> From: Stephen Anker <sanker at calarts.edu>
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> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:51:47 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Jack Stauffacher
> Sorry to hear this, Dominic, but thanks for letting us know.
> It's amazing that Jack lived until 97, and that he was vital until his
> last years.
> What a great inspiration for these anti-humane, greedy times.
> Steve
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Dominic Angerame <
> dominic.angerame at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Noted San Francisco printer, Jack Stauffacher passed away at the age of
>> 97 at his home in Tiburon, California. Jack was well known amongst the art
>> and experimental cinema scene in San Francisco since the 1940s.
>>
>> His brother Frank Stauffacher started the film experimental cinematheque
>> series "Art in Cinema" in 1947 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
>>
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