SXSW documentary celebrates 50 years of Big Easy music and culture.
“A great festival experience that can’t be matched.” That’s the judgment of the late, legendary George Wein, who died last September while the New Orleans music festival he helped found remained on pandemic hiatus.
Wein, producer of the Newport Jazz Festival, had first been consulted in the early Sixties, when Jim Crow made an integrated event impossible. After a decade of false starts, the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival opened in 1970, and in 2019 celebrated its 50th Anniversary., a vivid documentary which earns its subtitle as a story of its host city. Early on, Ellis Marsalis Jr. helped recruit local musicians, and he notes that the eclectic festival was never “only” about jazz.
Longtime festival producer Quint Davis provides contextual commentary, and film directors Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern select generously from archival footage. Buffett credits New Orleans with his own maturation and delivers a stirring, scene-specific rendition of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Another celebrant, Katy Perry, accompanies the Gospel Soul Children on “Oh Happy Day” , merging seamlessly into Perry’s “Firework.
Jazz Fest features “7,000 musicians on 14 stages over 8 days,” so the generous selection here is just a sample. One moving sequence recounts the 2006 festival, a few battered months after Hurricane Katrina. Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall recalls the “rebuild from below zero,” and the film memorializes Bruce Springsteen’s inspirational repurposing of his hymn for Asbury Park, “My City of Ruins.”
“You can’t do it but you have to do it,” says Davis of that year’s festival. Filmgoers can pay personal homage to the revival … as they plan their April visit to the Birthplace of Jazz.A note to readers:has been Austin’s independent news source for almost 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press.
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