[Dixielandjazz] That Gatsby Movie

[Bert]

Don't forget Rhapsody in Blue. ;-)
Wonderfull piece of music. Not hardcore 1920's jazz, but certainly connected.Played all symphony sax parts on different occasions and once had the honour to play the clarinet part with Symphonic orchestra.Big pleasure.
Although it is a strange "computerised" version of it in the movie, the music itself stands.
Bert

> From: garym at teledyn.com
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:19:35 -0400
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] That Gatsby Movie
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: mister_bertje at hotmail.com
> 
> Had my first chance to watch that Gatsby movie last night, and now it is
> obvious why it was a hip-hop electro-beat movie with only that one Louis
> Armstrong track: the writer/producer and just about everything else was the
> rap star Jay Z, husband of Beyonce if I'm not mistaken (she also performs
> on the soundtrack) and a great deal of the music is by Bryan Ferry, ex of
> the 70's pseudo-swank and spaced-out electro-pop group Roxy Music and who
> now fancies himself as a "modern" big band jazz leader (look up Roxy Music
> on youtube and you'll see that he's always had a fetish for the Andrews
> Sisters, which is a shame because, in my opinion anyway, the Boswells were
> far superior ;)
> 
> So it's not a movie about the 20's so much as it's probably a movie about
> the Rich And Beautiful People Scene of the 2020's NYC, only mixed in with
> disco-ized deco clothing (the co-producer is also the fashion director and
> hence the sudden flood of Gatsby-inspired fashions last summer) and fantasy
> Dusenberg cars as digital effects.  The party scenes especially come
> straight out of just about any MTV/Beyonce video with a dash of 70's era
> Roxy Music.
> 
> I'd say it was to F. Scott Fitzgerald what West Side Story was to
> Shakespeare. It is really a testament to the power of the 20's era Louis
> Armstrong that OKOM got into the movie at all!
> 
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