Dexter Gordon

L'histoire d'un jeune chercheur qui se voit confier un groupe de malades chroniques atteints de troubles psychiques profonds, derniers rescapés d'une épidémie d’encéphalite. Il va peu a peu les ramener à la vie grâce à un nouveau remède et s'occupe plus particulièrement de l'un d'entre eux, Leonard Lowe.

Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Makaya Ntshoko and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen perform at the Jazzhus Montmartre in 1969. Setlist: "Those Were the Days" "Fried Bananas"

Une passion dévorante : C'est ce que représente le jazz pour Francis. Une passion que Sylvie, son ex-compagne, n'a jamais partagée. En cette fin des années 50, après une longue éclipse, son saxophoniste préféré, Dale Turner, revient jouer à Paris au Blue Note. Pour l'écouter, Francis, désargenté, n'a d'autre ressource que d'aller chaque soir coller son oreille au soupirail du club, quitte à délaisser son travail de dessinateur et surtout sa fille, Bérangère. Si Dale possède encore un son merveilleux, c'est un homme usé, las, guettant la moindre occasion de s'imbiber d'alcool…

Biographical documentary on the life and career of Dexter Gordon.

Filmmaker Jean Achache shot extensively on the set of ’Round Midnight. This documentary presents that material for the first time, including footage of director Bertrand Tavernier, production designer Alexandre Trauner, and other members of the cast and crew.

Documentary on jazz giants Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon's 1962-76 European exile. Multiple film festival award winner. Director: Janus Køster-Rasmussen

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

Dexter Gordon features three concerts filmed in 1963 and 1964 in Holland, Switzerland and Belgium that highlight the bebop legend's classic style and silky tone. Filmed while Dexter was living in Europe, these shows feature legendary side musicians such as Art Taylor (drums) and Kenny Drew (piano) and jazz classics "Blues Walk", "A Night In Tunisia", "Body And Soul" and others. One of the most influential saxophonists in jazz history (both John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins claim him as an influence), Dexter Gordon is captured in sharp form and style on this 70-minute tour de force.

Recorded live by the Danish National Radio at a jazz clinic for music students at a high school in Denmark in 1967. The 50 minutes of music (five tunes).