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poster Bullitt (Peter Yates, US 1968)

still from Bullitt (Peter Yates, US 1968)

still Bullitt (Peter Yates, US 1968)

Eye Filmmuseum seen across the river IJ © Marcus Koppen

Eye Filmmuseum, © Marcus Koppen

An abstract illustration of a figure in a trilby hat playing a piano on the left and a figure on the right playing the saxophone. (campaign image All That Jazz (© René Gast & Yvonne Kroese (wallstories.org)))

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Eye on Sound: Bullitt (1968) (soundwave)

still from A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, US 1951)

Eye on Sound: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (soundwave)

still from The Stroke (Vincent de Boer, NL 2020)

Eye on Sound: The Stroke (2020) (soundwave)

still from Lets Get Lost (Bruce Weber, US 1989)

Eye on Sound: Lets Get Lost (1989) (soundwave)

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Tonight’s All That Jazz film programme is opened by London-based jazz band Ill Considered, featuring regular band member and animator Vincent de Boer. Their unique audio-visual live show 'Liminal Spaces' is a live improvisation in both sound and images, with a special role for the audience.

A regular member of Ill Considered, Utrecht-based artist/animator Vincent de Boer won the Debut Competition Award at the Netherlands Film Festival for his animated film The Stroke, featuring music by Ill Considered, improvised while the musicians were seeing the film for the first time. Alongside a new, unique version of The Stroke, this evening De Boer will create a new animated film, live, in interaction with the music. The band will also play an improvised jazz score accompanying material from the Eye collection. At the band’s own request, they will not be told in advance what the films will be. Next to De Boer, the band will be joined by film-maker Lisa Wormsley tonight to contribute to a live artwork. Ill Considered love to improvise, but this evening the group will go a step further, using interaction with the audience and visual artists to create a ​​unique, one-off work. While the audience influences the band’s playing, the band will improvise their own soundscapes. These will then be recorded in real-time, in the form of a live artwork made by De Boer, and in film by Wormsley. The final product of the improvisation will be a unique musical experience, including an album cover and video directed by the audience, that can only be experienced by those present. About Ill Considered Ill Considered consists of bassist Liran Donin (Led Bib), saxophonist Idris Rahman (Wildflower, Soothsayers, Unknown to Known) and producer/mixer/drummer Emre Ramazanoglu (David Holmes, Leo Abrahams, Noel Gallagher, Steam Down, Theon Cross, Wildflower, Étienne Daho). This wildly energetic group have put out no less than nine studio albums and two live albums since 2017. Combining the dynamism of the British jazz scene with improvised DIY punk energy, the band’s sound is not easy to pigeonhole. Each album features original artwork by visual artist Vincent de Boer.

Ill Considered: Liminal Spaces

Fascinating portrait of jazz trumpetist Chet Baker, made by photographer Bruce Weber, paints a disturbing picture of a musician brought low by his drug addiction. The trumpet player’s appeal and many flaws captured in a noir documentary.

Bruce Weber’s masterpiece about the cool jazz legend, shows how Chet Baker’s drug abuse would ultimately result in his death. The film was shot a mere four months before the latter’s deadly fall from an Amsterdam hotel window.

Let's Get Lost

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Composer Lalo Schifrin had already cemented his place in film history with his iconic soundtrack for Mission: Impossible (1966) when he signed up to score action thriller Bullitt: one of 'King of Cool' Steve McQueen’s most well-known films.

Lalo Schifrin (Buenos Aires, 1932) had a background in jazz and early on in his career worked with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, before increasingly concentrating on film music from the 1960s. An exceptional feature of Schifrin’s jazz fusion soundtrack for Bullitt is that it effortlessly fuses elements of funk, saccharine cocktail music and rock without losing its overall feel – which is why it is also an excellent standalone album.

Jazz greats like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon and Ornette Coleman have all made music for a film at one time or another. As musicians, they have contributed to works by idiosyncratic directors such as Louis Malle, Bertrand Tavernier and David Cronenberg.

All That Jazz

Elia Kazan’s classic is iconic: Marlon Brando’s astounding Method Acting was at complete odds with traditional, subdued acting. Alex North was one of the first to take jazz seriously as film music.

Kazan gave Brando, star of Kazan’s Method Acting school, free reign in the black &amp; white adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ famous play, which was also directed by Kazan, featuring Brando as the rough Stanley Kowalski.Composer Alex North was one of the first to take the opportunities jazz provided as soundtrack music seriously. The way he incorporates jazz and blues into the sound of a symphony orchestra is unique. The score illustrates the characters’ moods using different instruments (saxophone, strings). In the past, film composers had accompanied characters with (recurring) themes and motifs.
North used jazz – a musical genre viewed purely as party music (swing, ragtime, Dixieland) or as experimental artsy music (bebop) – as a compositional element. Before A Streetcar Named Desire jazz in films was often a gilded gimmick or location music (from a radio or in a dirty diner).
Jazz great Miles Davis (not exactly known for praising peers) said of Alex North's score; ”That’s a wild record... if anybody is going to write for strings in the jazz idiom or something near to it it’ll be North”

Bullitt

Peter Yates / US, 1968 / 114 min.

Composer Lalo Schifrin had already cemented his place in film history with his iconic soundtrack for Mission: Impossible (1966) when he signed up to score action thriller Bullitt: one of 'King of Cool' Steve McQueen’s most well-known films.

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