Let Spin and Hanslip as Thieves Cheetham.

[Jazzrook]

Here's 'Non-Sectarian Blues':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=1--J2ZtMKoU

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Many thanks! I've found my Mingus book, apparently the reason Mingus was in the movie was because the screenplay was co-written by an American writer Nel King, who couldn't sell the idea in the States so brought it to London and Basil Dearden. She was a big Mingus fan and pressed for him to be in the movie, apparently in a much bigger part.

[Serial_Apologist]

Many thanks! I've found my Mingus book, apparently the reason Mingus was in the movie was because the screenplay was co-written by an American writer Nel King, who couldn't sell the idea in the States so brought it to London and Basil Dearden. She was a big Mingus fan and pressed for him to be in the movie, apparently in a much bigger part.

If I remember correctly All Night Long was based on Romeo & Juliet, so would probably have been a bit advanced for American movie goers!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Othello. I think the racial aspect was why it was a hard sell. In the original US screenplay it was based around a black jazz pianist with a white girlfriend, and a white drummer as the Iago figure. Dearden had previously made "Sapphire" about the murder of a black music student so I imagine he was up for it.

[Serial_Apologist]

Othello. I think the racial aspect was why it was a hard sell. In the original US screenplay it was based around a black jazz pianist with a white girlfriend, and a white drummer as the Iago figure. Dearden had previously made "Sapphire" about the murder of a black music student so I imagine he was up for it.

Oh yes I remember now - thanks for that. I remember Sydney Poitier being presented as "the right kind of black" and therefore acceptable to white American audiences who would have identified with Katharine Houghton and her nice middle-class family in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" at around that same time.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yep, Jack Kerouac's book, "The Subterraneans", was changed from a racial black and white "hip beat couple" drama to the very white George Peppard and Leslie Caron when it was turned into a (fairly awful) movie! But at least the music was good, Art Pepper, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Andre Previn who wrote the score.

[Old Grumpy]

Just catching up with JRR...


Steve Race Clip: Cobweb Corner. Love it!