Horace Parlan "My Scandinavian Blues"
- Muskvideos
- von Mechthild Katzorke und Volker Schöwerling | catlinafilm 2015
- 6 Musikvideos/Dokumentarfilm | HD, DVD, ges. 37 min
Horace Parlan was one of the greatest jazz musicians. In his birth year 1931, he was stricken with polio, resulting in the partial crippling of his right hand. Despite this handicap he studied piano from the age of 12 and after suffering from polio developed a strong left-hand technique. During his time in Pittsburg and New York Horace played with the most important US-musicians of his era like Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Sonny Sitt, Stanley Turrentine and Dexter Gordon. His music was released at the famous Blue Note Label, one of his best known songs was "US Three".
The first time we met Horace Parlan in Copenhagen in 2014 and became good friends within a few minutes. So we decided to do a music video for the Scandinavian Blues project. Inspired by Horace himself, the four musicians Thomas Clausen (piano), Tomas Franck (sax), Jimmi Roger Pedersen (bass) and Adam Nussbaum (drums) came together as US4 and performed Horace's original compositions from as far back as 1960 to 1999.
The project grew with our camera. Originally, the idea was to shoot a promotion video to supplement the music, but then we became fascinated by Horace’s story, and we wound up with six short movies. These movies tell the story of “My Scandinavian Blues”, of Horace’s life with Norma, of his time in Copenhagen and the small town where the couple lived until old age forced them to move. Despite wheel chair, paralysis and blindness, Horace was still part of the jazz scene that has been his whole life. As often as possible he has someone drive him to Copenhagen and other places on Zealand to listen to concerts, enjoy the music and meet people on the scene.
We shot an interview with him for the song "Broken Promises" to get the clip more documentary. We had no idea that it would have been his last interview forever. At the age of 85, Horace died on February 23, 2017, in Korsør, Denmark.
The videos are included as an additional DVD to the album "Scandinavian Blues". See link below: "Website".
- Muskvideos
- von Mechthild Katzorke und Volker Schöwerling | catlinafilm 2015
- 6 Musikvideos/Dokumentarfilm | HD, DVD, ges. 37 min
Horace Parlan was one of the greatest jazz musicians. In his birth year 1931, he was stricken with polio, resulting in the partial crippling of his right hand. Despite this handicap he studied piano from the age of 12 and after suffering from polio developed a strong left-hand technique. During his time in Pittsburg and New York Horace played with the most important US-musicians of his era like Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Sonny Sitt, Stanley Turrentine and Dexter Gordon. His music was released at the famous Blue Note Label, one of his best known songs was "US Three".
The first time we met Horace Parlan in Copenhagen in 2014 and became good friends within a few minutes. So we decided to do a music video for the Scandinavian Blues project. Inspired by Horace himself, the four musicians Thomas Clausen (piano), Tomas Franck (sax), Jimmi Roger Pedersen (bass) and Adam Nussbaum (drums) came together as US4 and performed Horace's original compositions from as far back as 1960 to 1999.
The project grew with our camera. Originally, the idea was to shoot a promotion video to supplement the music, but then we became fascinated by Horace’s story, and we wound up with six short movies. These movies tell the story of “My Scandinavian Blues”, of Horace’s life with Norma, of his time in Copenhagen and the small town where the couple lived until old age forced them to move. Despite wheel chair, paralysis and blindness, Horace was still part of the jazz scene that has been his whole life. As often as possible he has someone drive him to Copenhagen and other places on Zealand to listen to concerts, enjoy the music and meet people on the scene.
We shot an interview with him for the song "Broken Promises" to get the clip more documentary. We had no idea that it would have been his last interview forever. At the age of 85, Horace died on February 23, 2017, in Korsør, Denmark.
The videos are included as an additional DVD to the album "Scandinavian Blues". See link below: "Website".
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