The acting dynamo couple of Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance have jointly come on board as executive producers on filmmaker and screenwriter Dwayne Johnson-Cochran’s riveting documentary Be Known: The Mystery of Kahil El’Zabar, about the legendary avant garde jazz musician.The film, which was recently screened at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago back in January, and at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, will have another sneak preview again in Chicago at the DuSable Museum on Saturday May 10, 2014 at 7Pm.Co produced and edited by Christopher Scott Cherot (Hav Plenty, G, Mooz-Lum), the film chronicles the day-by-day, gig–to-gig struggle and harried life of a...
- 5/1/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Filmmaker and screenwriter Dwayne Johnson-Cochran’s new and acclaimed documentary film about avant garde jazz musician Kahil El’Zabar, titled Be Known, will be screened at the 8th annual Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers – West, which takes place at the American Film Institute facilities in Los Angeles on Saturday April 12th.Showing along with Roger Ross Williams’ God Loves Uganda and D. Channsin Berry’s The Black Line (Profile of the African-American Woman), Be Known is a “warts and all” exploration of the life and career of a truly original artist who has been "modern jazz's kept secret” for decades. Unique and totally someone who moves to the beat of...
- 3/27/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Among modern jazz enthusiasts, Kahil El’Zabar is known as jazz music’s “best kept secret.” Unique and totally someone who moves to the beat of different drummer, El’Zabar is world renowned as a true innovator, a teacher and one of the truly original voices and presences in jazz music and has been for decades.However he’s also human. In fact, rather too human, and who leads… how say we say... a rather complicated and messy life off the stage. Now filmmaker and screenwriter Dwayne Johnson-Cochran, who is a long time boyhood friend of El’Zabar, has made a remarkable, penetrating “warts and all” documentary of the jazz great called Be Known.Not only is the film a...
- 1/15/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Among modern jazz enthusiasts, Kahil El’Zabar is known as jazz music’s “best kept secret.” Unique and totally someone who moves to the beat of different drummer, El’Zabar is world renowned as a true innovator, a teacher and one of the truly original voices and presences in jazz music and has been for decades.However he’s also human. In fact, rather too human, and who leads… how say we say... a rather complicated and messy life off the stage. Now filmmaker and screenwriter Dwayne Johnson-Cochran, who is a long time boyhood friend of El’Zabar, has made a remarkable, penetrating “warts and all” documentary of the jazz great called Be Known.Not only is the film a...
- 12/3/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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