Script Magazine
Like they say, when you’re hot, you’re hot. It doesn’t hurt to have a patron who is hot, either, and Bruce Ricker, president of Rhapsody Productions Inc. (www.cinemaweb.com/rhapsody/) certainly has one of those. Oscar®-winning director and star of Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood has been a friend and patron of Ricker’s for many years. Rhapsody’s brilliantly scripted and produced DVDs are ample proof of Eastwood’s impeccable taste in jazz and mainstream features:
Sweet Love, Bitter
This beautifully crafted film features a screenplay by Herbert Danska and Lewis Jacobs, produced by Lewis Jacobs and Louis W. Kellman and directed by Danska. It was way ahead of its time in terms of realism and sheer emotional impact and had been lost for over a quarter of a century. The first great film that portrays what it was like to be a black jazz musician in white America, it’s loosely based upon the final years of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker and features Dick Gregory as the jaded, jilted but still jammin’ sax musician.
A few other Rhapsody DVDs not to be missed if you love great biography and great jazz:
Like they say, when you’re hot, you’re hot. It doesn’t hurt to have a patron who is hot, either, and Bruce Ricker, president of Rhapsody Productions Inc. (www.cinemaweb.com/rhapsody/) certainly has one of those. Oscar®-winning director and star of Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood has been a friend and patron of Ricker’s for many years. Rhapsody’s brilliantly scripted and produced DVDs are ample proof of Eastwood’s impeccable taste in jazz and mainstream features:
Sweet Love, Bitter
This beautifully crafted film features a screenplay by Herbert Danska and Lewis Jacobs, produced by Lewis Jacobs and Louis W. Kellman and directed by Danska. It was way ahead of its time in terms of realism and sheer emotional impact and had been lost for over a quarter of a century. The first great film that portrays what it was like to be a black jazz musician in white America, it’s loosely based upon the final years of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker and features Dick Gregory as the jaded, jilted but still jammin’ sax musician.
A few other Rhapsody DVDs not to be missed if you love great biography and great jazz:
- Jaki Byard, Anything For Jazz/Elvin Jones, Different Drummer.
- Lee Konitz, Portrait of An Artist As A Saxophonist.
- Texas Tenor:The Illinois Jacquet Story. Survival & Inspiration.
