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