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Not Afraid · 01-19-2005, 01:04 AM

A couple of really hip films that come to mind are:

Paris Blues - Paul Newman as a jazz musician in Paris
Dangerous Liaisons (1960) - Roger Vadim's version of the story set in 1960's Paris

To get another perspective of the happenings of "On the Road" from Neal Caassidy's POV, read "The First Third".

There's a lot of poetry and novellas out there. The BIG names are Alan Gisnberg, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassidy and Gregory Coroso. THere's also a collection called The Beat Reader which is sometimes a good way t go as an introduction.

Music & Art: Thelonious Monk is so very Beat. So is Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman and Elaine DeKooning.

Jazzman · 01-19-2005, 03:45 AM

I'd recommend Round Midnight, a sin-to-be-missed film starring the legendary and incomparable Dexter Gordon as aging jazzman Dale Turner. It's set in a Paris club and full of grab-your-soul-and-pull-you-into-another-world jazz (actually created by the man onscreen, no less.)

What's swank about it? Not much. What's hip? Well, if Dex's melancholy tenor ain't hip, then hip is dead. I'd say that watching it won't show you "hip," but it could help you get in touch with your own inner, truer hipness. To paint a masterpiece you need a whole pallet of colors, and to truly be hip a cat has to dig a whole range of hipness, and Dex explores it all.

Not that I'm biased or anything.

01-19-2005, 01:04 AM	#1
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	A couple of really hip films that come to mind are: Paris Blues - Paul Newman as a jazz musician in Paris Dangerous Liaisons (1960) - Roger Vadim's version of the story set in 1960's Paris To get another perspective of the happenings of "On the Road" from Neal Caassidy's POV, read "The First Third". There's a lot of poetry and novellas out there. The BIG names are Alan Gisnberg, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassidy and Gregory Coroso. THere's also a collection called The Beat Reader which is sometimes a good way t go as an introduction. Music & Art: Thelonious Monk is so very Beat. So is Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman and Elaine DeKooning.
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01-19-2005, 03:45 AM	#2
Jazzman Sax God Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Portland's Tijuana Posts: 510	I'd recommend Round Midnight, a sin-to-be-missed film starring the legendary and incomparable Dexter Gordon as aging jazzman Dale Turner. It's set in a Paris club and full of grab-your-soul-and-pull-you-into-another-world jazz (actually created by the man onscreen, no less.) What's swank about it? Not much. What's hip? Well, if Dex's melancholy tenor ain't hip, then hip is dead. I'd say that watching it won't show you "hip," but it could help you get in touch with your own inner, truer hipness. To paint a masterpiece you need a whole pallet of colors, and to truly be hip a cat has to dig a whole range of hipness, and Dex explores it all. Not that I'm biased or anything.
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