[Dixielandjazz] For Jazz Fans - Turner Classic Movies December 6 -

[Stephen G Barbone]

Brubeck will be 90 on December 6. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating  
it on Television as follows:

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband

TCM to Celebrate Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck’s 90th Birthday with Dec. 6  
Premiere of Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way
All-New Documentary, Executive-Produced by Clint Eastwood, Chronicles  
Life and Music of America’s Jazz Ambassador
With each passing decade, Dave Brubeck continues to amaze millions of  
fans across the globe.  His quartet performed more than 50 concerts in  
2010, and Brubeck still creates new composi¬tions.  On Monday, Dec. 6,  
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will celebrate Brubeck’s 90th birthday  
with the premiere of Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way, a new  
documentary executive-produced by Clint Eastwood.

The documentary takes its name from one of Brubeck’s most famous  
tunes, “In Your Own Sweet Way.”  Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way  
was produced and directed by filmmaker and longtime Eastwood  
collaborator Bruce Ricker, whose credits include Tony Bennett: The  
Music Never Ends, Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, The Last of the  
Blue Devils and TCM’s Emmy®-nominated Johnny Mercer: The Dream’s On  
Me.  Alec Baldwin is the narrator. In addition to serving as executive  
producer of the film, Eastwood chairs the Honorary Board of the  
Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.

Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way tells Brubeck’s personal story,  
including his early musical training; studies with Darius Milhaud, the  
Dave Brubeck Quartet, featuring Paul Desmond; and the musical  
revolution caused by his introduction of new time signatures in jazz,  
such as in the jazz standard Take Five.

Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way features contemporary interviews,  
including George Lucas, Sting, Bill Cosby, Jamie Cullum, David Benoit  
and Yo-Yo Ma.  Also included are previously unseen archival footage  
and photographs; vintage performances from the Newport Jazz Festival  
and the Monterey Jazz Festival; and a never-before-seen interview with  
Dave Brubeck and Walter Cronkite.  Finally, here are also interviews  
filmed for the documentary with Dave and Iola Brubeck, that captures  
their longtime romance and artistic collaboration,

TCM’s premiere of Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way will be  
accompanied by All Night Long (1962), a jazz update of  
Shakespeare’sOthello featuring a great Brubeck performance.  The  
Brubeck celebration will be preceded by a quartet of jazz films:   
Blues in the Night (1941), Paris Blues (1961), Young Man with a Horn  
(1950) andThe Strip (1950).


The following is the complete schedule of TCM’s special Monday, Dec.  
6, lineup (all times Eastern Standard Time USA):

Jazz Film Classics
7:30 a.m.    Blues in the Night (1941) – Priscilla Lane and Richard  
Whorf headline this musical drama about a self-destructive  
bandleader.  Elia Kazan plays a clarinetist.  The film, which features  
memorable Warner Bros. montages, also stars Betty Field, Jack Carson  
and Lloyd Nolan.

9:30 a.m.    The Gene Krupa Story (1959) – Sal Mineo plays the  
legendary jazz drummer who struggled with numerous ups and downs,  
including addiction.  Susan Kohner co-stars, with jazz great Anita  
O’Day and comedian Buddy Lester playing themselves.

11:30 a.m.    Young Man with a Horn (1950) – Kirk Douglas plays a  
trumpeter trapped in a triangle with good girl Doris Day and bad girl  
Lauren Bacall.  This compelling drama is based on Dorothy Baker’s  
book, which itself was inspired by the life of Bix Beiderbecke.  Harry  
James dubbed the trumpet work for Douglas.

1:30 p.m.    The Strip (1951) – Mickey Rooney stars in this jazz- 
infused story about a drummer whose dreams of opening his own nighclub  
get derailed when he becomes involved with a gangster and gets accused  
of murder.  Great performances by Louis Armstrong, Vic Damone and  
others highlight this intriguing drama.

Dave Brubeck’s 90th Birthday
3:15 p.m.    All Night Long (1962) – William Shakespeare’s Othellogets  
the jazz treatment with this swinging film about an interracial  
romance and the man determined to destroy it.  Patrick McGoohan is  
especially good in the Iago-inspired role.  The cast includes Betsy  
Blair, Marti Stevens, Keith Michell and Richard Attenborough.  Several  
jazz artists appear in the film, including Dave Brubeck, Charlie  
Mingus and John Dankworth.

5 p.m.    PREMIERE: Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way (2010)