Tuesday, October 22, 2019
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (ET)
Benjamin Mays Center 103 - Assembly
Event Type
Film/Movie
Contact
Chapman, Dale E.
Department
Music
Link
https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=40562
Bernard Tavernier's 1986 film drama stars the late jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon, whose character "Dale Turner" is based on a composite of real-life jazz legends Lester Young and Bud Powell. A conversation between Maxine Gordon, the saxophonist's widow, and Bates professor Charles Nero follows the screening. Gordon also offers a public talk on Oct. 23. Sponsored by the departments of music and of film, rhetoric and screen studies. FMI 207-786-8212.