Play the Way You Feel
The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 July 2020
- ISBN 9780190847579
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 185x262x30 mm
- Weight 998 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 60 film stills 17
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Short description:
A guide to and history of movies that tell stories about jazz, Play the Way You Feel looks at how on-screen depictions compare to the real thing, and at the often inventive ways these stories are told.
MoreLong description:
Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York.
Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.
With a lot of research, insights and background on jazz, jazz biographies and the eye and ear for a certain lore, mystery, and irony whenever biographies, anecdotes and oral jazz history are referred to, Whitehead presents a fine work on some aspects of the jazz film. Well worth reading and having on the shelf.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Prologue: The "I Got Rhythm" of Jazz Movies 1927 & 1946
Chapter One: Duke's Day & First Features 1929-1940
Chapter Two: Origin Stories 1941-1947
Chapter Three: Bands of Brothers 1941-1948
Chapter Four: Young Men with Horns-the Jazz Biopic's Golden Age 1950-1959
Chapter Five: The Jazz Musician (and Fan) as Character 1951-1961
Chapter Six: Independents in Black & White 1961-1967
Chapter Seven: Spectacles 1972-1984
Chapter Eight: Suffering Artists 1984-1989
Chapter Nine: Young Lions & Historical Fictions 1990-2000
Chapter Ten: The Jazz Musician (and Fan) as Character 1959-2016
Chapter Eleven: Movies within Movies & New Orleans Comes Back 2008-2019
Postscript: Print the Legend
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
