[Dixielandjazz] Musicians faking in movies

[Rick Knittel]

Dick;

It was Warren Jr. in the film, not Allen (Allan).

Rick Knittel


On Wed, 04 May 2005 14:00:28 -0700 Dick_Miller at pmug.org (Dick Miller)
writes:
> dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com writes:
> >   It may come as a surprise to some that even musicians fake 
> playing in 
> >movies, especially when they are part of the background in a party 
> or
> >club 
> >scene.
> 
> Case in point: "The Gig," subject of a recent thread on this list. I 
> went
> off to Amazon.com and got me a copy, then watched it the other 
> night. I
> was a bit surprised to see Allen Vache', who was both the cornet 
> player in
> the movie and the music director of the film, when his fingerings 
> didn't
> match the notes. Then I thought about it a while. They often do a 
> number
> of takes of a scene, and could well have used cuts from different 
> takes to
> make up the total scene  as it wound up in the movie, accounting for 
> the
> differences.
> 
> --Dick Miller
> 
> 
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