Monday, July 27, 2020

The beat goes on: The Eddy

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Nobody can question Damien Chazelle’s jazz credentials; the Academy Award-winning writer/director of  Whiplash  and  La La Land  has demons...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Recent discovery: Agent 077, sfida ai killers

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This one resulted from a pleasant suggestion from a fan, who wondered why I hadn't explored actor Richard Harrison ’s second outing as ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Recent discovery: James Tont Operazione U.N.O.

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Actually, it's more accurate to call this one a recent re -discovery. As explained in my books' introductions, I didn't have...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

From the cutting-room floor: A Man Called Adam

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Most film directors shoot far more footage than they'll ever use; the quality of the finished product is shaped via subsequent trimming ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Lamentably overlooked: Le Deuxième Souffle

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I know, I know. How could I possibly have missed this one, for Volume One? It's particularly baffling, given the well-deserved at...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

The publicity machine wheezes into life

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Promoting a new book was already difficult, in an era when reading seems to have turned into a lost art, and publishers have gone out of bus...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

A month of swing from TCM

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Turner Classic Movies (TCM) was invaluable during my research phase; they had — and continue to have — numerous titles that couldn't b...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Motherless Brooklyn: A jazz masterpiece

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It was inevitable, of course; the moment the ink dries on a project such as this, it becomes incomplete. Mere weeks after my two manusc...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Greetings!

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Welcome to ScreenActionJazz.com, the companion blog to my two-volume study of this genre — Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950-1970 and ...