| Description |
1 streaming video file (64 min.) : digital, sound, color |
| Contents |
1. Chapter 1 -- 2. What is conduction? -- 3. Red car -- 4. Rehearsal -- 5. BandBig! -- 6. New school lecture -- 7. History -- 8. Conduction #1 -- 9. Rehearsal 2 -- 10. Emyoueseyesee -- 11. Chorus of poets -- 12. Brandon Ross -- 13. Nublu -- 14. Phantom Station -- 15. Henry Threadgill -- 16. New York Skyscraper -- 17. Closing credits |
| Summary |
Black February chronicles an unprecedented series of concerts performed in New York City by legendary jazz composer and conductor Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris. Butch put on the series in February 2005 to celebrate 20 years of Conduction, his revolutionary technique for leading live improvisations. More than a simple portrait of those 28 days or a biography of an engimatic and complex legend of the avant-garde, Black February is a film about how music is made and what it means. It's about the struggle of artists trying to distill the purest essence of themselves into their work, and the scope of a musical theory that has the potential of redefining what it means to make music |
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Title from title frames |
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Originally produced in 2012 |
| Credits |
Producer, director, & writer, Vipal Monga ; editor, Zachary Ludescher ; director of photography, Vinay Chowdhry ; sound designer, Andrew Munsey ; art director, Linda Peng |
| Performer |
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, with various artists |
| Notes |
System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed January 7, 2014) |
| Subject |
Morris, Lawrence Butch -- Interviews
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| SUBJECT |
Morris, Lawrence Butch. fast (OCoLC)fst00293886 |
| Subject |
Conductors (Music) -- United States -- Biography
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Improvisation (Music)
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Instrumental ensembles.
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Jazz -- 2001-2010.
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Free jazz.
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Avant-garde (Music)
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Avant-garde (Music)
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Conductors (Music)
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Free jazz.
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Improvisation (Music)
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Instrumental ensembles.
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Jazz.
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United States.
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Biographies.
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Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Interviews.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Morris, Lawrence Butch.
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Monga, Vipal.
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Collective Eye (Organization), film producer
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