'Round midnight [videorecording] /
- 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1986 by Warner Bros. Features: cast and crew, awards, theatrical trailer.
Dramatizes the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan. Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Bud Powell and Francis Paudras.
Director of photography, Bruno DeKeyzer ; editor, Armand Psenny ; music composed, arranged and conducted by Herbie Hancock. Director of photography, Bruno DeKeyzer ; editor, Armand Psenny ; music composed, arranged and conducted by Herbie Hancock.
Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Lonette McKee, Martin Scorsese, Christine Pascal.
Inside the Blue Note nigthclub oe night in 1959 Paris, an aged ailing Jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a class of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius in the fading musician. Round Midnight, set to Herbie Hanclock's superb Academy Award winning Best Original Score, is an elegant ode to bebop - the technically demanding jazz that blossomed during the postwar era - and to the expatriate black Americans who created, nurtured and lived it, Directed by Bertrand Tavernir and showcasing tenor sax great Dexter Gordon in a remarkable performance, Round Midnight is an awesome musical journey.
DVD; Dolby digitial; Widescreen; Region 1; Dual-layer.
In English with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese; closed-captioned.
Jazz. Jazz musicians. Jazz musicians--Drama. Jazz--Drama.
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