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Straight no chaser thelonious monk
Straight no chaser thelonious monk











Old footage from different network companies was used, along with the footage from the Blackwood brothers' previous work. Clint Eastwood agreed to have his production studio Malpaso produce the film and gave them the budget needed to finish the film.

straight no chaser thelonious monk

Ricker eventually came into contact with Clint Eastwood and after finding out his appreciation of jazz and the bebop genre asked if he was interested in helping with production of the film. Before any deals could be made by Zwerin and Ricker, the rights to Monk's life story were bought by "two young men, with a substantial chunk of money and no prior film experience", which delayed production of the film.Īfter the delay Zwerin and Ricker struggled to fund the project and only raised enough money for a one-hour television program with limited post-TV distribution potential. Monk's death brought up complications on the film's production, however, as the absence of a will and the fact that New York did not recognize common law marriages led to a lengthy process before Monk's children could become the executors of the estate. Blackwood filmed the funeral while Zwerin and Ricker planned to make a deal with the Monk estate. While they originally planned to enlist Monk for the film, he was not well enough to approach and his failing health led to his eventual death of a stroke on February 17, 1982.

straight no chaser thelonious monk

Ricker brought in Charlotte Zwerin to help with the production of the film, which led to four producers Ricker, Zwerin, and the Blackwood brothers. After Ricker saw the footage, calling them "the Dead Sea Scrolls of jazz", he suggested that they use the footage as the focus of a new documentary. After meeting on the streets of New York, director and cinematographer Christian Blackwood mentioned to film producer Bruce Ricker that he and his brother had done some work on jazz, referring to a one-hour film special on Thelonious Monk that only aired once in Germany.













Straight no chaser thelonious monk