The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2015)
65K Biography Documentary Genre History Bill Crow Bill Pierce Carla Bley Chuck Israels Dan Morgenstern David Amram David Friend David Frishberg Harold Feinstein Harry Colomby Jason Moran John Cohen John Morris Robert Northern Robin D.G. Kelley Ron Free Sara Fishko Shana Smith Rasmus Sy Johnson Thelonious Monk Jr. Vicki Goldberg 2015 7.3 English Sara Fishko United States
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith: Directed by Sara Fishko. With David Amram, Carla Bley, John Cohen, Harry Colomby. Art, obsession and anxiety permeate a dilapidated Manhattan loft building in Mid-century: The first movie to use photographer W. Eugene Smith’s massive, fly-on-the-wall archive of photos and audio tapes documenting the likes of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Giuffre, Hall Overton and others at work and play in the Sixth Avenue wreck that was Smith’s home and studio from 1957 through the ’60s.
“He had extraordinary passion that never burnt out.”
