The Devil's Horn
From Adolphe Sax’s workshop to the legendary times of jazz and bebop, conquering the classical music stages, forbidden by Nazis and Communists and banned by the Pope: in its 170-year history the saxophone has always been the most seductive as well as the most feared musical instrument. Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Larry Weinstein illuminates and mythologizes the story of the saxophone, its most legendary players and its allegedly longstanding curse about saxophonists falling prey to the instrument’s dark powers.
'Round Midnight
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Permanent Vacation
In downtown Manhattan, twentysomething Allie, whose father is not around and whose mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for meaning in his life and meets some idiosyncratic characters along the way.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Live in New York City
A two disc amalgam of the final performances of 2001's Madison Square Gardens performances by one of the greatest bands in the world of some of the greatest music in the world. The atmosphere positively floods out of the screen to envelop you and the hairs on your neck will be standing on end before the first note has been struck. After watching this you'll believe that The Boss is incapable of putting a foot wrong. By the end, he's only just short of defying gravity.
Bird
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Larry Weinstein
Director
David Fox
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Narrator
Colin Stetson
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Self
Arthur French
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Booker
Victoria Gabrielle Platt
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Chan Turner
Martin Scorsese
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Goodley
Philippe Noiret
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Redon
María Duval
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Latin girl
Frankie Faison
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Man in lobby
Bruce Springsteen
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Self
Nils Lofgren
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Self
Steven Van Zandt
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Self
Clint Eastwood
Director
Keith David
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Buster Franklin
Diane Venora
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Chan Parker
Forest Whitaker
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Charlie 'Bird' Parker
Arlen Dean Snyder
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Dr. Heath
Evelyn Keyes
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Bette Logan
Robert Montgomery
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Joe Pendleton
Donald MacBride
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Police Inspector Williams
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