Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: jazz & hard-boiled
Marcel Bernadac (bernadac@club-internet.fr)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 21:02:38 +0200
>Can I rename a strand from the Mike Hammer thread? How
about "Jazz &
>hard-boiled"?
As far as I am concerned : yes, you can.
My generation ( just before WW II) grew up - in France and
other west
european countries - on american atmosphere : movies, jazz ,
books, coca
cola, Camel , Cadillac and Chevrolet ...It is not surprising
that I love
postwar Jazz.
It was mainly played in night-clubs where it encountered from
time to tim=
e
many hardboiled characters. For this reason I think that Jazz
suits
perfectly to several films noir.
In addition to the list already given I indicate a few french
films noir
that I particularly relished :
- Louis Malle's Ascenceur pour l'=E9chafaud (Miles Davis
quintet)
- Jean-luc Godard's A bout de souffle (Martial Solal)
- Roger Vadim's Sait-on jamais? (John Lewis' modern jazz
quartet)
- Georges Lautner's Mort d'un pourri (Stan Getz)
- Edouard Molinaro's Des femmes disparaissent ( Art Blakey's
Jazz
Messengers)....
and also : Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au grisbi (jean
Wiener)-
It's not jazz stricto sensu but the harmonica solo is
delicious-
The harmonica player was Jean Wetzel. The tune became a hit
played
by Larry Adler.
But I'm old fashioned and it's the opinion of the younger
generation that
is attractive.
Marcel Bernadac
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