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Jazz Feel in New York Film

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Marc Myers
May 31, 2017
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Jazz was so potent in the 1950s that young experimental filmmakers in New York were inspired to express the music's improvisational feel in their avant-garde work. In researching the subject recently, I came across four filmmakers who used used the city as a backdrop for their emotional, abstract cinema. Here are four short films, with a fifth clip adde…

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