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LINTON GARNER: I NEVER SAID GOODBYE
Vancouver International Film Festival
Sun Oct 5, 2003 Granville 7 Cinema 7
Wed Oct 8, 2003 Granville 7 Cinema 5
Colin Browne, author of Ground Water, nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, is also a filmmaker who has written and directed a film about the life of the celebrated jazz musician Linton Garner, who played the last years of his long career in a club near Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver. During a career that spanned more than seven decades, Linton worked with innovators like Charlie Parker, Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie before making Vancouver his home in the early 1970s. When his younger brother Erroll, a keyboard prodigy, died suddenly the day before a planned visit in 1977, Linton decided that he would one day write a tribute. Through recollections of his early professional days, conversations with fellow musicians and footage from the 2002 Vancouver International Jazz Festival performance of I Never Said Goodbye, Linton emerges as a man of great warmth, humanity, sharp wit and immeasurable talent. [2003]
Sun Oct 5, 2003 Granville 7 Cinema 7
Wed Oct 8, 2003 Granville 7 Cinema 5
Colin Browne, author of Ground Water, nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, is also a filmmaker who has written and directed a film about the life of the celebrated jazz musician Linton Garner, who played the last years of his long career in a club near Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver. During a career that spanned more than seven decades, Linton worked with innovators like Charlie Parker, Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie before making Vancouver his home in the early 1970s. When his younger brother Erroll, a keyboard prodigy, died suddenly the day before a planned visit in 1977, Linton decided that he would one day write a tribute. Through recollections of his early professional days, conversations with fellow musicians and footage from the 2002 Vancouver International Jazz Festival performance of I Never Said Goodbye, Linton emerges as a man of great warmth, humanity, sharp wit and immeasurable talent. [2003]
Submitted on October 3, 2003 in By David.
