The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

Name: The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
Genre: Biography, History, Music, Documentary
Released: September 23, 2016
Duration: 87 min

2016

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FilmBuff | Release Date: September 23, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: In 1950s Manhattan, a dingy, five-story wreck of a loft building becomes the home and the obsession of the brilliant photographer W. Eugene Smith --who leaves his family and moves there to live the artist’s life. Smith, crashing after a stellar but frustrating career at LIFE Magazine, wires the building for sound and for nearly a decadeIn 1950s Manhattan, a dingy, five-story wreck of a loft building becomes the home and the obsession of the brilliant photographer W. Eugene Smith --who leaves his family and moves there to live the artist’s life. Smith, crashing after a stellar but frustrating career at LIFE Magazine, wires the building for sound and for nearly a decade captures daily life at 821 Sixth Avenue in thousands of pictures and endless hours of audio tape. Over those years in this place in New York’s wholesale flower district, jazz players gather all night, every night, for freewheeling jam sessions both hot and cool Thelonious Monk comes by to rehearse for a famous concert Hall Overton emerges as a jazz guru and a gifted drummer named Ronnie Free finds and loses his footing in the jazz world. Smith stealthily documents all that and more. This is the first film to use Smith’s massive, fly-on-the-wall archive to tell the stories from the Jazz Loft.… Expand

Director: Sara Fishko

Genre(s): Biography, History, Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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