Finding Carlton - Uncovering the Story of Jazz in India will screen in PROVIDENCE, RI on Monday, April 23rd.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES JOUKOWSKY FORUM, 155
5:00PM, APRIL 23
The screening is sponsored by the The Office for Institutional Diversity at Brown University and will feature a discussion with the Filmmaker after the screening
Please contact The Office for Institutional Diversity at Brown University
Finding Carlton – Uncovering the Story of Jazz in India. tells the universal story of the jazz musician, with a unique flavor. This captivating and unique 73-minute character driven film takes audiences on a richly atmospheric journey into India’s little-known jazz age, which lasted from the 1920s to the 1970s, through a portrait of surviving Indian jazzman, the maverick guitarist Carlton Kitto, who chose to continue as a ‘gigging’ be-bop guitarist in the relative obscurity of Calcutta over emigration, commercial studio work or Bollywood.
A maverick dedicated to pure jazz, particularly bebop, Carlton, 68, is an unsung cultural custodian who has nurtured hundreds of young musicians in the jazz idiom, and who still plays to half-empty Calcutta hotels.
But where did all this come from ? How did this music from America find a home in India ? And how did India respond to it?
BROWN UNIVERSITY, WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES JOUKOWSKY FORUM, 155
5:00PM, APRIL 23
The screening is sponsored by the The Office for Institutional Diversity at Brown University and will feature a discussion with the Filmmaker after the screening
Please contact The Office for Institutional Diversity at Brown University
Finding Carlton – Uncovering the Story of Jazz in India. tells the universal story of the jazz musician, with a unique flavor. This captivating and unique 73-minute character driven film takes audiences on a richly atmospheric journey into India’s little-known jazz age, which lasted from the 1920s to the 1970s, through a portrait of surviving Indian jazzman, the maverick guitarist Carlton Kitto, who chose to continue as a ‘gigging’ be-bop guitarist in the relative obscurity of Calcutta over emigration, commercial studio work or Bollywood.
A maverick dedicated to pure jazz, particularly bebop, Carlton, 68, is an unsung cultural custodian who has nurtured hundreds of young musicians in the jazz idiom, and who still plays to half-empty Calcutta hotels.
But where did all this come from ? How did this music from America find a home in India ? And how did India respond to it?
