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Saturday, Dec 10, 1983
7:30PM
Groovin' High
Jazz-film archivist Mark Cantor returns to the Pacific Film Archive with an evening of exciting film clips featuring some of the greatest names in modern jazz. Last April, Mr. Cantor presented a program, It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, spotlighting some of the great composers and improvisors from the twenties through the fifties. Tonight's program chronicles the development of jazz from be-bop in the 1940s to the contemporary explorations of such masters as John Coltrane. Drawn from a wide variety of sources, these extremely rare excerpts present astonishing glimpses of such artists as Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Gene Ammons, Erroll Garner, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh and many others. Mark Cantor will also present Groovin' High at the San Francisco Cinematheque on Sunday, December 11.
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