Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Chops / a Bruce Broder film in association with Winnercomm, Inc ; with thanks to Jazz at Lincoln Center ; co-producers, Chip Rives, Joe Carmody, Warren Skeels ; director, Bruce Broder.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Virgil Films, 2009.

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Follows a group of high school students from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, a public school in Jacksonville, FL, as they try to win a competition where the prize is being able to play at the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival at New York's Lincoln Center and an opportunity to work with famed jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Essentially Ellington (Jazz program)

Jazz festivals -- United States.

Jazz -- Instruction and study -- Juvenile.

Music -- Instruction and study -- United States -- Juvenile.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-

Rives, Chip.

Carmody, Joe.

Skeels, Warren, 1975-

Broder, Bruce.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Virgil Films.

Notes:

Special features include: original trailer; Wynton Marsalis interview from the Tribeca Film Festival; extended scenes from Ron Carter's jazz class.

Cinematography, Slawomir Grunberg and Alexis Boling ; editor, Jake Pushinsky ; co-executive producers, Tim Cremin and Bruce Broder.

DVD, NTSC, widescreen ; Dolby digital ; all regions.

Tribeca Film Festival, Official Selection; Jacksonville Film Festival, Best Documentary; Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, People's Choice Award.

Contents:

Practice and practice -- A different level -- Cats that could play -- challenging music -- You've been selected -- What we needed -- Seattle -- You're tripping -- Something in the water -- From our hearts -- Only one band left.

ISBN:

9786312924609

Publisher Number:

670629

Other Number:

318547056

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

755986

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 781.65 Chops