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Release Date
• USA: Aug 13, 2004
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Running Time
1 hour, 22 minutes
Country USA
Studio Palm Pictures
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Genre: Documentary
Plot: In the annals of pop music, there's probably no one other than legendary impresario John Hammond whose ubiquitousness compares with that of engineer/producer Tom Dowd. From the 1950s on, Dowd was both a tireless technological innovator and a uniquely musical engineer and producer. A key figure at the Atlantic and Stax labels, among others, Dowd was intimately involved with the recording of the giants of jazz (Dizzy Gillespie, Ornette Coleman), soul (Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin), and rock (Cream, Allman Brothers, Derek & the Dominos). TOM DOWD & THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC is a lively profile of this artistic and technical mastermind, punctuated by gripping performance footage of the countless top-shelf artists on Dowd's resume, as well as interviews with some of those musicians, and with the charming, effervescent Dowd himself.Besides being a skilled musician (at one point we see him playing some impressive jazz piano), Dowd was uniquely qualified for his work on the technical side, with his background as an army engineer. Not only did Dowd oversee the making of groundbreaking albums like Derek & the Dominos' LAYLA and Otis Redding's OTIS BLUE, he helped design and test the atomic bomb in the infamous Manhattan Project. Clearly this is a man with a story to tell, and this film
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Eric Clapton
Tommy, The Last Waltz, The Concert for New York City |
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The Blues Brothers, Divas Live: An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Children, Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music |
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The Blues Brothers, Spy Hard, The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave | | | Thelonious Monk
Jazz on a Summer's Day, Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser, Liaisons dangereuses, Les | |
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