Scene Report: H2O, 1995-1996 by Ethan Minsker

 As promised, here's more from Ethan Minsker!

Roadies are the baby sitters for small bands. We act as the therapist or marriage consolers. Every weekend I would be on the road up and down the East Coast. This was back in 1995 a time when even small bands could feel famous. We became a family. I think the video shows this. If you like this sort of stuff please have a look at my book Rich Boy Cries For Momma about the Washington, DC punk and hardcore scene, here.

Movie of the Week: Dexter Gordon - More Than You Know (1996)

Dexter Gordon, Royal Roost, New York City, 1948 by Herman Leonard (source)

Documentary tracing the tenor saxophonist's career from his beginnings in the bands of Billy Eckstine and Lionel Hampton in the 1940s, through his self-imposed exile in Copenhagen in the 1960s, to his triumphant return to the US in the 1970s and the making of the film Round Midnight in 1985. The story is told in Gordon's own words through interviews and performances. (Text source)

Includes footage of Dexter during different periods of his career speaking and playing, both in Europe and the United States, as well as interviews with the great Ben Webster, Steve Lacey, Woody Shaw, Phil woods, and others.

Before & After: A Great Day In Harlem

Before - A Great Day in Harlem (Art Kane, 1958)

After - A Great Day in Harlem Survivors (Gordon Parks, 1996)

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