{"id":3087,"date":"2011-11-16T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2011-11-16T13:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:54:05","slug":"correspondence-a-granz-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/11\/correspondence-a-granz-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: A Granz Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting to the Norman Granz item in the following exhibit, Alan Broadbent writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m sure you and your readers must be aware of this precious film, but for the record here it is. Is it from the legendary Granz vault?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes. Granz produced, wrote and narrated the film In 1950. He titled it <em>Improvisation<\/em>. The photographer was Gjon Mili, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Bird-et-al-Improvisation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Bird-et-al-Improvisation.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bird, et al, Improvisation\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3088\" \/><\/a>collaborated with Granz six years earlier on the short subject <em>Jammin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 The Blues<\/em>. The players recorded the music in advance. For the filming, they synchronized fingering and breathing to match the recorded track\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsome with greater success than others. The synching efforts seem to account for the amusement among the musicians. This cast of players is typical of those Granz assembled for his Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts.<\/p>\n<p>Collective personnel: Charlie Parker, \u00e2\u20ac\u00a8Coleman Hawkins, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Buddy Rich, Bill Harris, Lester Young, Harry Edison, Flip Phillips, Ella Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8MVGxY-mnz4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>That clip, outtakes and a good deal of subsidiary material, exist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Norman-Granz-Montreux-Jazz-Improvisation\/dp\/B000ADKY4Y?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">on this DVD<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting to the Norman Granz item in the following exhibit, Alan Broadbent writes: I&#8217;m sure you and your readers must be aware of this precious film, but for the record here it is. Is it from the legendary Granz vault? Yes. Granz produced, wrote and narrated the film In 1950. He titled it Improvisation. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}