Dizzy Gillespie Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/dizzy-gillespie/ What to Watch Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:20:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Dizzy Gillespie Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/dizzy-gillespie/ 32 32 SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT Trailer: Sundance-Winning Documentary Uncovers a Hidden History Between the CIA and Jazz https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat-cia-jazz/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:47:58 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51693 Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

What did Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and other jazz musicians have to do with the CIA? Director Johan Gimonprez gives a mindblowing, yet jazzy account of the hidden connection between these famous figures and the agency’s […]

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]]> SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:51:01 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=49922 Still from Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The late (not so great) Henry Kissinger was, very much to a […]

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]]> FILMS OF SHIRLEY CLARKE, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-films-of-shirley-clarke-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-films-of-shirley-clarke-film-review/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:08:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=844

(The Films of Shirley Clarke screens at Anthology Film Archives from April 22nd-28th, 2009. If you’re not able to attend, you can purchase the DVD set Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 at Amazon, which includes Clarke’s 1958 film Bridges-Go-Round.) […]

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