Six Degrees of Jazz: a film series

Six Degrees of Jazz is a film series presented by the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival designed to celebrate and explore the history of jazz and other styles of music.

All films screen Tuesdays at 7PM at The Broadway Theatre. Tickets are $8 ($5 for Broadway Theatre or SJS members, card required), and are available at the door starting at 6:30pm.

For each screening, we give away free advance tickets for a short period of time. To make sure you know when these are made available, sign up for our newsletter or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.

Six Degrees of Jazz is sponsored by St. John’s Music, and is in partnership with the Broadway Theatre. Promotional support for the series is provided by CFCR 90.5 FM.

MAY 22
THE BLUES BROTHERS

After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit “The Penguin”, the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from God” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

1980 / 133 min

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PREVIOUS FILMS

JANUARY 24
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

The Saskatchewan Jazz Festival is kicking off the 2012 edition of Six Degrees of Jazz with the classic music movie A Hard Day’s Night.

The Beatles travel from their home town of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast. Along the way they must rescue Paul’s unconventional grandfather from various misadventures and drummer Ringo goes missing just before the crucial concert.

1964 / 87 min / 35 mm

FEBRUARY 21
LOOK AT WHAT THE LIGHT DID NOW

Look At What The Light Did Now documents the journey of Feist’s Grammy nominated album “The Reminder.” The poetic film, directed by Anthony Seck, pulls back the curtain to reveal intimate partnerships with the people Feist calls her `amplifiers’: The photographer who helped her hide within the frame, shadow puppeteers in hockey arenas, an artist who built a thread-radiating mural, the video director who conducted fireworks, the pianist who guided the recording of the album, and other musical and visual collaborators.

2010 / 77 min

MARCH 20
CALLE 54

We’re giving away the first 250 tickets to see this fantastic film — click here to get yours!

Fernando Trueba presents his love affair with Latin jazz, his camera following 13 giants into the studio. Trueba drapes walls with single colors – red for Jerry González and the Fort Apache band, white for Tito Puente; his camera is close to faces, instruments, hands, and feet; bands’ colors contrast with walls or their leader’s clothes. Chucho Valdés does a pyrotechnic solo then joins his aged father Bebo for a subdued duet. Puntilla Ríos takes us to Africa, Chano Domínguez to a marriage of jazz and Flamenco, and Eliane Elias, her shoe-less foot on the pedal, to gorgeous and muscular elegance. With Paquito, Cachao, Patato, Chico, Gato, and Michel Camilo, we travel Calle 54.

2000 / 105 min

APRIL 10
BOB DYLAN: DONT LOOK BACK

Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubador, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker’s camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It’s the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud. From the opening sequence of Dylan holding up words to the soundtrack’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” Dylan is playful and enigmatic.

1967 / 96 min