Film
★ 7.1
2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
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Benjamin Cawthra
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Benjamin Cawthra is a U.S. cultural and public historian. His book Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (University of Chicago Press, 2011) examines the evolving representation of jazz subjects from the swing era of the 1930s to the black nationalist 1960s. He has also published essays on musicians Miles Davis (2001) and Duke Ellington (2016); boxer Jack Johnson (2019); and photographer/curator Lee Tanner (2021). He is an associate director of the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History, where he is the host of the Outspoken podcast.…