Search results
Kristian St. Clair’s documentary “This is Gary McFarland” tries to recover the composer’s lost fame through interviews with McFarland’s family and colleagues, rare film clips, and—on an accompanying CD—a previously unreleased concert by the McFarland Quintet.
Dec 3, 2014 · Gary McFarland is an almost completely forgotten jazz vibraphonist, singer, composer, and arranger who made a pretty big name for himself and worked with some of the biggest names of 1960s jazz...
- Charles Mudede
Aug 29, 2007 · A new documentary film, This Is Gary McFarland, is a potent reminder of the cult jazz musician who, as the film maintains, could have been a household name, but instead suffered a dreadful death at a relatively young age.
Nov 14, 2014 · This Is Gary McFarland: The Jazz Legend Who Should Have Been a Pop Star by Gary McFarland released in 2014. Find album reviews, track lists, credit...
- (2)
Rising through the ranks of the New York jazz studio scene, McFarland was a creatively restless spirit who was never satisfied to be pigeon-holed as just a jazz arranger/composer. When he began to explore pop music in earnest, his original jazz fans cried foul.
Feb 28, 2021 · The subtitle of St. Clair’s film is The Jazz Legend Who Should Have Been a Pop Star. First making his mark in the musical world as a sophisticated and talented jazz arranger, McFarland in one segment explains that his mind is too restless to work in just one genre, and soon he will be fusing jazz with Latin sounds, pop and rock.
People also ask
What is This is Gary McFarland?
Did Gary McFarland have a short career?
What happened to Gary McFarland?
Who was Jimmy McFarland?
This Is Gary McFarland -- The Jazz Legend Who Should Have Been A Pop Star (CD & DVD) CD (Item 800927) Century 67, 1965. Out Of Stock. CD. Add to. Watch List. Set a. product alert. A lost treasure from the great Gary McFarland -- a never-heard live recording, matched here with a beautiful documentary on his too-short life!
