Film: Born To Be Blue (Certificate 15)
wall2wall Jazz Festival
Date/Time
- Saturday 31st August 2019
- 2.15pm
Venue
- Melville Centre: Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny NP7 5UD
Tickets
- £8.00
Festival Quick Links
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Monday 26th August
- John-paul Gard Trio: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Tuesday 27th August
- Lady Nade Duo: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Wednesday 28th August
- Jazz for Little’uns: 12 noon – Melville Centre
- The Sicknote Steve Bluegrass Trio: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Thursday 29th August
- Youth big band workshop: Full day – Melville Centre
- Festival Dinner featuring Ian Shaw: 7pm for 7.30pm – The Angel Hotel
Friday 30th August
- Youth big band workshop: Full day – Melville Centre
- John Law’s Re-Creations: 7pm – Melville Theatre
- Jazz in the Bar with Debs Hancock and Dave Hobbs: 8.15pm – Melville Centre
- Nick Kacal’s Guerillasound Quartet: 9.15pm – Melville Theatre
Saturday 31st August
- Youth big band workshop: Morning – Melville Centre
- Dennis Rollins and his Youth Workshop Band: 12.15pm – Melville Theatre
- Film – Born to be Blue: 2.15pm – Melville Theatre
- The Goodyear Bop Septet: 4.45pm – Melville Theatre
- CHUBE featuring Dennis Rollins: 7pm – Melville Theatre
- Sarah Gillespie Sextet: 9.15pm – Melville Theatre
Throughout the day, enjoy jazz vinyls in the bar during theatre intervals with Nick Steel – The Windup Merchant
Sunday 1st September
- Gospel singing workshop: 12noon – Dance Blast, Melville Centre
- Tango jazz workshop: 12noon – Melville Centre
- Tango Jazz: 2pm – Melville Theatre
- Renewal Choir: 4.15pm – Melville Theatre
- Jazz improvisation workshop: 7pm – Melville Centre
- Claire Victoria Duo: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Our ‘Jazz Through the Ages’ exhibition will be displayed Saturday the 31st August and Sunday 1st September at the Melville Centre
The wall2wall Jazz Festival ventures for the first time into the cinema world, with a joint venture with the Abergavenny Film Society.
Born To Be Blue stars Ethan Hawke as the troubled jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, shown making a tempestuous career comeback in the 1960s.
Chet Baker was renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool. But by the 1960s his career and personal life was in shambles due to years of heroin addiction.
The film traces Chet Baker’s battle with his demons, with a familiar mix of success, fame, drugs, sex, love and the fundamental battle to be understood as an artist.
A classic line from the film is when Chet Baker tells his wife – “Time gets wider … I can get inside every note.” If telling a story about Chet Baker needs to understand what it means to “get inside every note.” – Born To Be Blue does.
Please note – this film is ‘Certificate 15’.
