Earshot Jazz Films

Earshot Jazz Films

October 20 - November 2, 2009

Co-presented by the Earshot Jazz Festival

Curated by Peter Lucas

Northwest Film Forum and the Earshot Jazz Festival team up to present this annual film program celebrating the history, sounds and spirit of jazz as well its intersections with cinema.

Now in its 8th year, the program features the Seattle-made documentary Icons Among Us, the acclaimed new feature film Guy And Madeline On A Park Bench (featuring musician Jason Palmer) and a special live event in which bassist and composer Mark Dresser performs with the animations of Seattle filmmaker Sarah Jane Lapp. 

 

Animated Jazz Experiments

At the Seattle Asian Art Museum

Oct 20, 2009

Sarah Jane Lapp is a Seattle-based Renaissance woman, visual artist and filmmaker, who typically takes on abstract and ethnographic subjects in her finely rendered hand-drawn experimental animations. Mark Dresser is a Jazz impresario who emerged from the L.A. "free" jazz scene of the early 70's, and is often considered one of the master bassists of modern jazz. Lapp’s dreamy animation combined with the improvisational elements of Dresser’s music creates sonorous textural explorations of memory, place and social nostalgia in our religious imaginations.

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Guy And Madeline On A Park Bench

Oct 30 - Nov 01, 2009

(Damien Chazelle, USA, 2009, DigiBeta, 82 min)

Within the first ten minutes, we meet Guy (Jason Palmer) and Madeline (Desiree Garcia) as they meet each other, embark on a brief romance and part ways. The rest of the film focuses on the mellifluous voice of Guy’s trumpet and Madeline’s charming tap dancing, creating an ode to Boston’s eclectic jazz scene.

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Brian Blade & Christopher Thomas of Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, JVC Jazz Festival 2008 - Newport, RI (Photo by Jean Hangarter)

Icons Among Us

Oct 31 - Nov 02, 2009

(Lars Larson, Michael Rivoira, Peter J. Vogt, USA, DigiBeta, 2009)

Developed from a four-episode TV series, Icons Among Us is an erudite snapshot of today’s jazz scene, both reveling in the joyful energy of the world’s best jazz artists and delighting in the richly complex history of this important cultural form. Interviews with dozens of musicians from multiple generations and tons of live performance clips make this an appealing documentary for seasoned jazz lovers and newcomers alike.

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