Last in the series that charts the richness of world music.
New Orleans Revisited
A return to the Big Easy to examine the life and times of Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton, perceived through the eyes and ears of two Americans - leading jazz trumpeter
Freddie Hubbard and comic strip artist Robert Crumb.
Hubbard starts tonight's film with a quest to re-create the sound of Louis Armstrong's early Hot Five tunes. Hubbard recalls that a lot of people accused him of wasting his time: "I said, man you'd be surprised, I'm learning a lot!"
Crumb confesses that listening to old jazz records is as much a passion with him as drawing cartoons: "So at some point I knew the two were bound to come together." When they did, the result was a remarkable comic strip adaptation of the jazz legend, Jelly Roll Morton's s Voodoo Curse, which is transferred to the screen in its entirety tonight.
Director Christopher Bruce
Series editors Anthony Wall, Nigel Finch • STEREO