Sat, June 4 / 7 pm
Sun, June 5 / 3 pm
Wed, June 8 / 7 pm
Thu & Fri, June 9 & 10 / 9 pm
Sat, June 11 / 3 pm & 7 pm
Sun, June 12 / 7 pm
Directed by Robert Budreau
2015, Canada, 97 min
From Juke Joints to Church Halls: Jazz and Blues Film Fest
In conjunction with the TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival, we present a terrific program of recent films on jazz and blues with a pop-up jazz record sale, special introductions, a panel on how jazz and blues artists are portrayed on film and a draw for prizes!
Opening Night Introduced by Riley Bartlett – Saturday June 4 at 7 pm
In what Variety calls “one of the best performances of his career”, Ethan Hawke is utterly magnetic as Chet Baker, the legendary trumpeter and singer who, after becoming a jazz icon in the 1950s, became equally famous for his drug addiction. Born to be Blue re-imagines Baker’s life as a mixture of fact and fiction, picking up his story late in his career when, after years of heroin abuse, financial loss, and public disgrace, he attempts to stage a comeback. Much more than a standard biopic, this film takes an imaginative approach true to its subject’s own creative nature as it portrays the life of an artist whose contributions to the music world were as grand as his addictions were tragic.
Background: Riley Bartlett is a trumpet player, currently enrolled in the Jazz Studies program at the University of Manitoba. Riley developed his love for Jazz while attending high school at both Collège Jeanne Sauvé and Vincent Massey Collegiate. He is building his performance credentials around the city having played with such ensembles as; the Zach Brenda Quintet, Jazz on Wheels, and the University of Manitoba Jazz Orchestra. He can regularly be heard “cutting his teeth” at The Cool Wednesday Night Hang, as well as the Monday Night Jam at Vinyl Revival.
Generously sponsored by The Joanne Lesko Group (Joanne Lesko, Cindi French and Tara King) and IATSE 856
