The Man with the Jazz Guitar | |
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Directed by | Marc Mason |
Produced by | Marc Mason Linda Chirrey |
Starring | Ken Sykora Martin Taylor |
Cinematography | Marc Mason |
Edited by | Marc Mason |
Music by | Ken Sykora Django Reinhardt ContentsQuintette du Hot Club de France |
Production company | Five Feet Films |
Distributed by | Five Feet Films (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Man with the Jazz Guitar is a 2012 British documentary film about the jazz guitarist Ken Sykora.
The Man with the Jazz Guitar was released in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2012. [1]
It was selected for the 2013 Keswick Film Festival, the 2013 Tucson Film & Music Festival and the Jazz on Film section of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival and also appeared as part of the programme of various jazz festivals. [2]
It was described by film critic Philip French as an “affectionate, affecting and altogether delightful documentary”. [3] "The film paints a contented picture of life in Suffolk, with interviews with Ken’s friends – former Ipswich dentist Ronnie Caiels, folk musician David Penrose and his lodger, singer Julie Gleave. They conjure up an image of a man very much at peace with himself", according to the East Anglian Daily Times. [4] A review in Sight And Sound wrote, "It presents itself as something of a restoration narrative, in which a forgotten figure receives the credit and interest he is due, but it never insists on any epochal importance for its subject. There are glimpses of influence: gestures toward the impression his BBC programme devoted to the guitar must have had on a younger (and far louder) generation of players who came of age in the sixties." [5]
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