bertrand Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) John Litweiler's Ornette bio mentions a film called The Box Office made in 1981 and released in 1982 and produced by Josef Bogdanovich (not sure who that is and if he is related to film director Peter), which apparently has a score written by Ornette Coleman for Prime Time+40-piece Orchestra+singer (recorded in March 1981). In addition, there are three songs written by pianisrt Freddie Redd and sung by one of the actresses in the film (who presumbably wrote the lyrics). Freddie has confirmed the existence of this film and his involvement, but does not remember the three songs. Does anyone know anything more about this? My interest is two-fold. 1) It is a rare Ornette recording, which obviously took some time and money to put together. 2) There may be three unknown Freddie Redd tunes, which could be revived and added to his current repertoire. Is this film available somewhere? IMDB has few details, and it's certainly not on DVD. It was apparently either never released or only briefly. REALLY curious about this one! Bertrand. Edited February 6, 2013 by bertrand Quote
brownie Posted February 10, 2013 Report Posted February 10, 2013 Curious about this obscure film too... The Jazz on the Screen website has this information about it: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.jots.200014069/default.html The book version (Jazz in the Movies) indicated Ornette was using some 40 musicians! Found this entry from the Films de France website http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Boxoffice_1982_rev.html Josef Bogdanovich is not related to Peter B. He is a rich heir who wanted to direct a film! Looks like he is living in Jamaica nowadays and is a producer for Downsound Records! He seems to be on Facebook. You may ask him directly! Quote
bertrand Posted February 10, 2013 Author Report Posted February 10, 2013 (edited) I never thought of Facebook for Joesf! I found someone with the same name as the actress who did the singing, Carol Cortne, but she never answered so it must not be her. Josef must be old by now. I have information that he was also up to other things in the 50s which would be of great interest to us if I can confirm them. I will try to friend him. 'Ode to David Begelman' must be one of the three Freddie Redd tunes. Martin Banks and Teddy Edwards must be on those - I am sure they are not playing with Ornette. Bertrand. Edited February 10, 2013 by bertrand Quote
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