This is a trailer from the Blue Midnight, the upcoming film biography of Little Walter, widely considered to be the greatest blues harmonica player of all time. The film was produced and directed by Mike Fritz, a Boston-based film maker and musician. The film is unfinished due to a lack of needed funds for final editing, mastering, and licensing of Walter's music and film footage of Walter's last performances in Europe in 1967.
Update October 2013: The Little Walter Foundation is now offering a helping hand to Mike Fritz to raise funds to help to finish the film.
The Little Walter Foundation was founded by Little Walter's daughter, Marion Diaz Reacco, to preserve the legacy of her father, to provide blues music education and to sustain the blues music genre. Little Walter was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in May, 2013 at the first annual Little Walter Festival in Alexandria. We urge you to check out their site and support them at www.littlewalterfoundation.org.
The film was partially funded with a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. In March 2008, parts of the unreleased film were used during Little Walter's induction into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 -- February 15, 1968), was an American blues harmonica player, whose revolutionary approach to his instrument has earned him comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix for innovation and impact on succeeding generations. His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica. Little Walter was inducted to the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 in the "sideman" category, making him the first and only artist ever to be inducted specifically for his work as a harmonica player.
18 июл 2012
