Mo' Better Blues

...Esposito - you know him from practically every cop and courtroom series on TV and films including "Mo' Better Blues," "School Daze" and "Do The Right Thing" - will screen his directorial debut, "Gospel Hill," at Neighborhood Flix during the...

In this article: Harry Shearer, Charlize Theron, Giancarlo Esposito, Oscar, Denver, Gospel Hill, George Clooney, The Denver Post, and Democracy

...Brecker, Kevin Eubanks, Don Byron, Prince and Bill Evans. Ledford would also later contribute to the soundtracks for the Spike Lee films Mo' Better Blues and Do the Right Thing. In 1986, he began a working relationship with Pat Metheny,...

In this article: Mark Ledford, Pat Metheny Group, Miles Davis, Berklee College of Music, Banff Centre, Bill Evans, Don Byron, Michael Brecker, and Kevin Eubanks

...classmates at NYU. He then went on to shoot for me SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT, SCHOOL DAZE, DO THE RIGHT THING, MO' BETTER BLUES, JUNGLE FEVER, and MALCOM X, then he went on to direct his first film, being JUICE, the Tupac film. So I know what it...

In this article: Spike Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Do the Right Thing, NYU, Inside Man, She's Gotta Have It, Katrina, and World War II

...lives: It's great. Many people have told me over the years that they ended up going to a historically black college because of School Daze and they never listened to jazz before Mo' Better Blues or Do The Right Thing. Barack took Michelle...

In this article: Tyler Perry, Barack Hussein Obama, Our World, Joe Louis, Spike Lee, John Singleton, Jackie Robinson, and Do the Right Thing

...Jazz Charts. After performing on soundtracks for Spike Lee movies, including Do the Right Thing and Mo' Better Blues, Lee wanted Blanchard to compose the scores for his films beginning with "Jungle Fever" (1991). Blanchard has written...

In this article: Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, New Orleans, Donald Harrison, McCoy Tyner, Spike Lee, Grammy Award, Art Blakey, and Hurricane Katrina

...tensions in Do The Right Thing. Mo' Better Blues set in a jazz club was criticised for its depiction of greedy Jewish club managers while Jungle Fever dealt with inter-racial relationships. The director was even accused of playing...

In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Pizza, New York, Jim Jarmusch, Brooklyn, NYU, Clive Owen, and Inside Man

...Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), and Mo' Better Blues (1990). She also wrote and produced the film Crooklyn. Lee was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Jacqueline (nee Shelton), a teacher of arts...

In this article: Joie Susannah Lee, Spike Lee, She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, Crooklyn, Do the Right Thing, Brooklyn, and New York

...1966) and has composed original music for many of his son's films, including She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing and Mo' Better Blues. ''Music director and performer on the song "Nola," She's Gotta Have It (also see below),...

In this article: School Daze, Bob Dylan, She's Gotta Have It, Bill Lee, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Harry Belafonte, and Joie Lee