On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack
production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour
l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur
challenged mainstream filmmaking conventions, emphasizing
experimentation and creative collaboration. It was in this
environment during the late 1950s to 1960s, a brief "golden age"
for jazz in film, that many independent filmmakers valued
improvisational techniques, featuring soundtracks from such seminal
figures as John Lewis, Thelonious Monk, and Duke Ellington. But
what of jazz in film today? Improvising the Score: Rethinking
Modern Film Music through Jazz provides an original, vivid
investigation of innovative collaborations between renowned
contemporary jazz artists and prominent independent filmmakers. The
book explores how these integrative jazz-film productions challenge
us to rethink the possibilities of cinematic music production.
In-depth case studies include collaborations between Terence
Blanchard and Spike Lee (Malcolm X, When the Levees Broke), Dick
Hyman and Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters), Antonio Sanchez and
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman), and Mark Isham and Alan
Rudolph (Afterglow). The first book of its kind, this study
examines jazz artists' work in film from a sociological
perspective, offering rich, behind-the-scenes analyses of their
unique collaborative relationships with filmmakers. It investigates
how jazz artists negotiate their own "creative labor," examining
the tensions between improvisation and the conventionally highly
regulated structures, hierarchies, and expectations of filmmaking.
Grounded in personal interviews and detailed film production
analysis, Improvising the Score illustrates the dynamic
possibilities of integrative artistic collaborations between jazz,
film, and other contemporary media, exemplifying its ripeness for
shaping and invigorating twenty-first-century arts, media, and
culture.
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