Dennis Hopper NIGHT TIDE (1961)

[ghost of miles]

Anybody seen this film in its entirety? I stumbled across a clip of it the other day on YouTube and did a little writeup about the jazz club scene for the Night Lights site:

Night Tide jazz club scene

Paul Horn is the flutist--not sure about the others, though somebody on Facebook ID'd the drummer as Milt Turner and the bassist as Victor Gaskin.

Looks like the whole film is posted right now on YT.

[Michael Weiss]

Carmell Jones?

[Chuck Nessa]

Looks like Joe Gordon to me.

[jazztrain]

Correct, Chuck!

From Meeker's "Jazz on the Screen":

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NIGHT TIDE / Curtis Harrington [motion picture]

Title

NIGHT TIDE [motion picture]

Director

Curtis Harrington

Composer

David Raksin

Place of Publication/Creation

USA

Copyright Date

1961

Form

motion picture

Source

Information from: "Jazz on the Screen" by David Meeker. Used with permission.

Note

Feature film (over 60 minutes).

Songs

"Seaweed" by Jimmy Bond; "The tell tale harp" by David Raksin.

Personnel on Camera

Jazz group in opening sequence:- Joe Gordon, trumpet; Paul Horn, flute; + acoustic double bass, drums.

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Looks like Joe Gordon to me.

[paul secor]

Tossup for me which is more pretentious - Hopper or Horn's flute playing.

[ghost of miles]

Thanks much, Chuck and Jazztrain. I've updated the post with a credit to you both for the ID.

Edited August 25, 2010 by ghost of miles

[ghost of miles]

Upping this for JSngry.

[AllenLowe]

terrific drummer - anybody know who?

interesting is how tongue-tied Horn is - basically plays the same phrases over and over. They're trying to play, to my ears, a la Kind of Blue/Impressions.

Edited September 12, 2010 by AllenLowe

[Larry Kart]

Based on this "Frankly Jazz" clip:

the drummer might have been Milt Turner.

[JSngry]

Upping this for JSngry.

Got it, thanks.

[Adam]

Seen the film in its entirety. It's a low-budget moody marvel from Harrington. When I first saw it, I "got" Dennis Hopper as well.

It plays at least once a year in Los Angeles, as a good "Los Angeles" film, and Harrington's place in the L.A. avant-garde. He was a great person.