Calle 54

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Plot: In Calle 54, Madrid-based filmmaker Fernando Trueba explores the wide and wonderful world of Latin jazz: a hybrid genre that fuses the clave, samba, flamenco, merengue, and other rhythms from...( read more read more... ) Africa, the Iberian peninsula, and the Americas. The film's Spanish title takes its name from Sony Music Studios located on 54th Street in Manhattan, where a who's who of musicians were filmed and recorded. They range from Brazilian bombshell keyboardist Eliane Elias and enigmatic Argentine tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, to the fiery rumba group Puntilla y Nueva Generacion. The music and musicians of Cuba and Puerto Rico dominate this documentary, and the most touching scene is the emotional father-and-son reunion of Cuban pianists Bebo and Chucho Valdés, who were separated by Fidel Castro's revolution. Sadly, the film features the last onscreen appearances by the late composer-arranger Chico O'Farrill and the legendary timbales master Tito Puente. Simply put, Calle 54 is a documentary that dances. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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  • pier007
    pier007
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 13, 2008
    Latin Jazz in all its color, passion and fury. Fantastic numbers from some of the greatest musicians of the genre.
  • jaimeeebc
    jaimeeebc
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    MCT:
    May 19, 2006
    I don't get tired to see this documentary. The best ever filmed about latin jazz. One of my favourite dvds.

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  • Rated: (G)
  • Directed by: Fernando Trueba
  • Genres: Art House & International, Documentary, Drama, Musical & Performing Arts
  • Released: October 20, 2000
  • DVD Released: November 13, 2001

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