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Reviews. ‘Round Midnight. 131 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1986. Roger Ebert. October 24, 1986. 4 min read. In Dexter Gordon’s voice in “Round Midnight,” there is a quality that at first sounds like a great weariness. As I listened more carefully, however, I realized that there were other notes present.
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Round Midnight. 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 ...
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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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- Drama, Music
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1986-10-03
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.
Feb 15, 2024 · Richard Brody writes about Bertrand Tavernier’s 1986 jazz drama, “ ’Round Midnight,” starring the saxophonist Dexter Gordon.
May 10, 2022 · Bertrand Tavernier's collaboration with Dexter Gordon makes its case. Blu-ray film review by Sebastian Scotney.
’Round Midnight is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a sui generis, Oscar-nominated fusion of performer and character, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz ...
