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Summary:

Nat Hentoff is one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and who also led the rise of 'alternative' journalism in America. This unique documentary wraps the themes of liberty, identity and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act.

Table of Contents:

• The Village voice
• The jazz gene
• Liner notes
• Civil liberties
• Club kid
• Down beat
• College lessons
• The most important job
• Bob Dylan
• Hippies, feminists, and queers
• Married life
• Greenwich Village
• Lenny Bruce
• Candid
• We insist!
• Moldy figs
• Malcolm X
• Best jazz magazine ever
• The eighties generation
• The sound of jazz

• Family history
• Abortion
• Mingus music
• End of an era
• Are you still here?

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Contributors:

Lewis, David L. (Journalist) , film director

Braugher, Andre , narrator

Hentoff, Nat , interviewee

Wishing Well Productions , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

First-Run Features (Firm) , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English. Closed captioned.

Subjects:

Hentoff, Nat

Journalists — United States — Biography

Jazz — History and criticism

Journalists

Jazz

United States

Genres:

Motion pictures

Documentary films

Biographical films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Biographies

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

System Details:

DVD; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo.

Performers:

Featuring, Andre Braugher, Nat Hentoff.

Production Credits:

Narrator, Andre Braugher ; director of photography, Tom Hurwitz ; editors, David L. Lewis, Sam Pollard.

General Notes:

Originally produced in 2013.
Profile of jazz writer and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff, who championed jazz as an art form and who also led the rise of "alternative" journalism in America, wrapping the themes of liberty, identity, and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act. Features conversations with Hentoff, plus additional interviews with Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch, Floyd Abrams, Aryeh Heier, and Dan Morgenstern. Includes music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Bob Dylan, along with never-before-seen photographs and archival footage of these musicians and other cultural figures.
Special features: How Max came to Candid ; Critic to fan ; WWII ; The New Yorker.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; surround; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video

Call Numbers:

PLE 2013 DVD

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 720229916332
Publisher Number, First Run Features: FRF916332D

OCLC Numbers:

896829336