Filmforum screened Joyce Wieland's Rat Life and Diet in North America recently and Mark Toscano was able to identify it. "The free jazzish music in Rat Life and Diet is from this excellent JCO record" https://www.discogs.com/The-Jazz-Composers-Orchestra-The-Jazz-Composers-Orch estra/master/39895
Best regards, Adam Hyman Los Angeles Filmforum From: Stephen Broomer <[email protected]> Reply-To: "Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:03:49 +0000 To: "Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Jazz Music and Avant-Garde Film Hi Albert, Jack Chambers' R34 features a section of Ayler's Bells for the last stretch of it. Joyce Wieland's Rat Life and Diet in North America has a violent cacophony of free jazz at the beginning that I've not been able to identify. Joyce's Water Sark has an improvisational soundtrack by Carla Bley & Mike Mantler (of the Jazz Composers Orchestra) with Ray Jessel (Broadway composer and later novelty songwriter). Likewise, her Peggy's Blue Skylight is named for the Mingus composition and features Paul Bley playing it on the soundtrack. There are passages of jazz in the collage soundtracks of Arthur Lipsett. (Sorry for the Canada-centric response!) I feel like there's a Kuchar movie that has the Scott Lafaro bass solo from Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz on the soundtrack... There's another Hy Hirsch film, Gyromorphosis, that uses Django by the MJQ/John Lewis. There's always Pull My Daisy. Stephen Sent from my iPhone On Nov 8, 2017, at 3:14 AM, Albert Alcoz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering about the connections between jazz music and avant-garde film > after watching Bridges-Go-Round (1958) by Shirley Clarke, with the soundtrack > version created by Teo Macero. > > There should be plenty of avant-garde and experimental films where the > soundtrack is instrumental jazz music. Maybe the field of Visual Music should > be the most represented but i'm sure there are other films like the one by > Michael Snow that uses, in this case, free jazz music or improvisation. > > Does anyone remember some other avant-garde films with jazz soundtracks? > > Right my list is as follows: > > Begone Dull Care (1949) by Norman McLaren. Music by Oscar Peterson > > Films No. 1 (1948) by Harry Smith. Music by Dizzy Gillespie > > Chasse des Touches (1959) by Hy Hirsh. Music by Thelonious Monk > > Catalog (1961) by John Whitney. Music by Ornette Coleman > > New York Eye and Ear Control (1964) by Michael Snow. Music by Albert Ayler, > Don Cherry, etc. > > Thanks in advance, > > Albert Alcoz > > > -- > http://visionaryfilm.net/ <http://www.visionaryfilm.net/> > http://albertalcoz.com/ <http://www.albertalcoz.com/>
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