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Round Midnight is a 1986 American musical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and David Rayfiel. It stars Dexter Gordon, with a soundtrack by Herbie Hancock. The title comes from Thelonious Monk's 1943 composition 'Round Midnight, which is featured in this film in a Hancock arrangement.
Oct 3, 1986 · 'Round Midnight: Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. With Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips. A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
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- Drama, Music
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1986-10-03
In "Round Midnight," he plays Dale Turner, an American jazzman who goes to Paris in 1959 to play at a club called the Blue Note. Turner is about 60, an alcoholic and drug user whose pattern has been to pull things together for a while and then let them slide. Each slide is closer to death.
Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Bud Powell, a story of an American expatriate musician who tries to make order of his life during the great jazz millieu of 1950s Paris. 541 IMDb 7.4 2 h 11 min 1986.
In the 1950s, Dale Turner (Dexter Gordon), a gifted black saxophonist with a drinking problem, leaves behind New York and his estranged family and relocates to Paris. There he plays for a ...
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- Bertrand Tavernier
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- Dexter Gordon
In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the 1950's New York jazz world.
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Round Midnight. DRAMA. Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Bud Powell, this is the Academy Award-winning story of an American expatriate musician who tries to make order of his life during the great jazz milieu of 1950s Paris.
