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Why Making a Good Music Documentary Means Speaking Two Universal Languages

For the filmmakers who captured the historic trip to Cuba by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, it wasn't about translating English to Spanish, but Music to Film. It’s very hard to make a film about music that’s better than actually just listening to music. That’s the challenge co-directors T.G. Herrington and Danny Clinch took on in A Tuba to Cuba, a documentary the revered New Orleans Jazz band as they travel to post-embargo Cuba. There, the film captures the team, which includes Ben Jaffe, son of the founder of the Preservation Hall as well as its band leader today, as they travel the country, tracing the shared musical roots with their Cuban musician counterparts. The film covers the influence of history (slave ships stopped in Havana en route to New Orleans), the birth of syncopation and jazz (and arguably all modern music) and above all, the strength of music to communicate our worlds to each other without words. Here's a clip from A Tuba to Cuba that we listen to in the podcast: Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 16 July, 2018

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