in my mind
Director: Gary Hawkins, Producer: Emily LaDue, Executive Producer: Tom Rankin
In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, traces the creation and performance of jazz pianist Jason Moran’s original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s legendary performance at New York City’s Town Hall in 1959. Deeply inspired by Monk’s performance, Moran created IN MY MIND, a vivid visual and acoustic tribute to the infamous jazz icon. IN MY MIND brings together an eight-piece band, The Big Bandwagon, for a full-length, multimedia performance incorporating audio recordings and images made by noted photographer W. Eugene Smith. Smith’s involvement is especially noteworthy because he lived and worked in the loft building where Monk, his collaborator Hall Overton, and the entire band, toiled away arranging music and endlessly rehearsing.
