Re: Harry smith jazz

From: Jack Sargeant (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2008 - 02:58:39 PST


dizzy gillespie's guacha guero was used for No 2....

this may be a good point to suggest that for anybody wondering about
christmas gifts the new edition of naked lens: beat cinema (published
by soft skull, expanded and so on edition) is available from all good
bookshops, amazon and so on..... it features, of course, a chapter of
harry smith...enough sales shtick

jack

On 15 Dec 2008, at 16:27, Chris Kennedy wrote:

> Any record of what those actual jazz tracks were?
>
> On 12/15/08 12:00 AM, "FRAMEWORKS automatic digest system"
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>> Harry Smith painstakingly painted those films to synch up frame by
>> frame with specific jazz recordings (thelonius monk and others). That
>> was in the early 40s.
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