Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival
photo from http://www.thevillager.com
On Monday 06-th of June I was chatting with my boss about music, jazz in particular, and I remember saying that I will newer get over Miles Davis.
Same day at 10 pm the SBS television was screening the documentary about Miles Davis.
Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival is the title of this documentary directed and written by Murray Lerner.
Lerner spends 25 years in raising money to be able to release this 128 minutes movie.
Thank you Mr. Lerner, your movie is really a great experience.
“Villager Murray Lerner spent 25 years assembling a documentary on Davis (“Miles Electric. A Different Kind of Blue”) with footage from his 1970 Isle of Wight concert. The documentary includes “seven electrified, electrifying minutes, that the filmmaker didn’t quite know what to do with.” http://www.thevillager.com
Miles Davis was just too good. He is saying that: Technique must be forgotten. You have to make mistakes to make something new.
This remended me on the poem Forgeting Knowledge - The Tao Te Ching:
FORGETTING KNOWLEDGE
Something new is acquired each day.
But when pursuing the way of the Tao,
something is subtracted;
less striving occurs,
until there is no striving.
The Tao Te Ching, Translation by Stan Rosenthal http://www.clas.ufl.edu
I agree a good music documentary.
I chanced upon it on the box and reached straight for the recorder.
I wonder if the filmaker was thinking that they preferred, over those long 25 years to have been doing more of the striving and less of the, lets say more repetitive tasks of film making?
This makes striving the preferred option in my eyes!
Jazz and film making are not yet in union I think.
But one day. Soon.
Cheerio
Comment by Nicholas — June 26, 2005 @ 7:32 pm