[Dixielandjazz] That Gatsby Movie

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

strange and computerized is exactly right, but yes, it rated inclusion
in the hip-hop pantheon too, and that's encouraging, I suppose.

On 9/19/14, Bert <mister_bertje at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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