https://mrqe.com Tue, 05 May 2026 07:30:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/the-jazz-baroness-m100070026/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-jazz-baroness-m100070026/ The true story of a British heiress’s love for jazz genius Thelonious Monk.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/saxophone-colossus-m100025362/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=137068 Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz improviser. In 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge produced Saxophone Colossus, a feature-length portrait of Rollins, named after one of his most celebrated albums.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/a-great-day-in-harlem-m100065628/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/a-great-day-in-harlem-m100065628/ Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just about every jazz musician at the time showed up for the photo shoot which took place in front of a brownstone near the 125th street station. The documentary compiles interviews of many of the musicians in the photograph to talk about the day of the photograph, and it shows film footage taken that day by Milt Hinton and his wife.

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