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They Died Before 40--New Jazz Film To Make History

Source: Howard E. Fischer
March 15, 2016

The Music Kept Them Alive… And Killed Them! Which jazz musician’s funeral attracted 10,000 mourners and an 80-car funeral procession? Which African American musician was forced to play at the other end of the recording studio with white musicians? The website for the film has 40 Hot Points and more. More than two dozen gifted jazz artists died before reaching the age of 40. Most of them are relatively unknown, some even to jazz fans. Many of them made significant ...

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TV / Film

New Jazz Film "They Died Before 40" Seeks Help With Photographs

Source: Howard E. Fischer
January 23, 2015

They Died Before 40, a new jazz film with licensing concerns needs help from the jazz community. In order for the film to be shown publicly all photographs and music must be licensed. There are over 600 photographs and graphic images in the film. It has been determined that about 100 are in the public domain and need not be licensed. In order to determine which of the others are in the public domain the jazz community can help. Those ...

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TV / Film

A Jazz Tune Recorded In Heaven

Source: Howard E. Fischer
April 26, 2013

They Died Before 40, a new jazz film, features eight jazz artists, most of them relatively unknown. They all died before reaching the age of 40. Actually, four of the eight died before reaching the age of 30! Seven died before 1944 and one died in 1956. The greatest jazz band in history has been playing in heaven for more than 50 years! The film presents this band, organized in heaven, playing Stardust, “a tune recorded in heaven.” (They each ...

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