Must See Movie About Music


If you have any interest in post WW2 popular American music, then you must see "Tom Dowd & the Language of Music". Tom Dowd was the house engineer at Atlantic records and was there at the beginning of rock 'n roll. He also worked with numerous jazz giants (Coltrane, Ornette, MJQ, Mingus, etc.). The film contains great interviews about how the music was recorded and tons of film clips of actual performances.

BTW, his contribution to popular music happened after he graduated from Columbia U. with a degree in physics and his role in the early stages of the Manhattan Project and other nuclear weapons research.
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HWY:

Did you see any "Folk Art" looking paintings in the Ray Charles segments? A friend sold a bunch of his work to a production company for use in a Ray Charles film, but I have not been able to find it (the movie/film).

If it becomes available on Netflix I will check it out.