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Is Round Midnight based on a true story? ›

While the film is fictionalized, it is drawn directly from the memoir/biography Dance of the Infidels written by French author Francis Paudras, who had befriended Powell during his Paris expatriate days and on whom the character Francis was based.

Brought brilliantly to life by Dexter Gordon's outstanding performance, Round Midnight is the rare jazz-inflected drama that matches the power of the music.

The cast features many real jazz musicians, most prominently Dexter Gordon in the leading role – and Herbie Hanco*ck in the side role of pianist Eddie Wayne.

You can buy "'Round Midnight" on Apple TV as download or rent it on Apple TV online.

Johnny Green's "Body and Soul" was used in a Broadway show and became a hit after Coleman Hawkins's 1939 recording. It is the most recorded jazz standard of all time. In the 1930s, swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music.

The actors are really good. The movie's plot is a quite good, but there is some part of the movie feels a bit nonsense. The villain (Wi Ha-Joon) and the mute girl (Jin Ki-Joo) played their role really well.

In 1943, he began romancing his future wife, Nellie Smith, and registered for copyright a song called, "I Need You So." The next year, the Cootie Williams Orchestra recorded the ballad; but by then, Monk had dropped the original lyrics and now called it 'Round Midnight.

The government and a group of religious extremists pursue a man (Michael Shannon) and his son (Jaeden Lieberher), a young boy who possesses special powers.

Midnight Special / Film synopsis

Melding the life stories of pianist Bud Powell and sax man Lester Young into a memorable character called Dale Turner, Tavernier benefited from the fortunate casting of real-life musician Dexter Gordon to play this role. Gordon spent much of his working life in Copenhagen and in 1963 made a record with Powell in Paris.

Known as the "Sophisticated Giant," at 6 feet, 6 inches tall, Dexter Gordon was one of the most influential saxophonists of his day.

Why was Dexter Gordon important? ›

Dexter Gordon was one of the leading bebop tenor saxophonists, with his near-vibratoless sound and prodigious ability to improvise. He was a strong influence on the tenor saxophonists who came after bebop, especially Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane.

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Six Minutes to Midnight is a 2020 British war drama film directed by Andy Goddard from a screenplay loosely based on a true story by Goddard, Celyn Jones and Eddie Izzard, starring Izzard, Judi Dench, Carla Juri, James D'Arcy and Jim Broadbent.

Inspired by real-life cases. The first was Richard Speck's murders of eight student nurses. The second was when a Scotland Yard investigator got fired from his job for planting evidence to convict a Thames River killer, and it turned out that the killer committed three murders before being convicted.

Melding the life stories of pianist Bud Powell and sax man Lester Young into a memorable character called Dale Turner, Tavernier benefited from the fortunate casting of real-life musician Dexter Gordon to play this role. Gordon spent much of his working life in Copenhagen and in 1963 made a record with Powell in Paris.

In the 1950s, Dale Turner (Dexter Gordon), a gifted black saxophonist with a drinking problem, leaves behind New York and his estranged family and relocates to Paris. There he plays for a progressive, jazz-loving audience without being judged by his race, and ages quietly in peace. Not intending to turn away from his vices, Dale nonetheless becomes the project of a French fan (François Cluzet) who tries to help him fight his alcoholism, ultimately inspiring both Dale and his music.

Round Midnight / Film synopsis