In My Mind
Invited
Not your run-of-the-mill concert film here as prodigy composer Jason Moran revisits and interprets bebop pianist Thelonious Monk’s historic 1959 Town Hall big band concert. Commissioned by Duke University, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Chicago Symphony Center, and the Washington Performing Arts Society, Moran sifts through photographs from Duke’s Jazz Loft Project and audio recordings made by Eugene Smith to present the life, times, and music of North Carolina’s jazz giant. Mash-ups are hot these days, and the mixed media Moran gives us on all things Monk, captured by filmmaker Gary Hawkins at the Center for Documentary Studies, is way hip, a big Rootie Tootie. DS
Director
Gary Hawkins
Producer
Emily LaDue
Editors
Gary Hawkins, Emily LaDue, Kelley Katzenmeyer
Cinematographer
Steve Milligan
Release Year
2010
Festival Year
2010
Country
United States
Run Time
100 minutes
Premiere
World Premiere