It's Jazz, man. Also, it's Shakespeare.
All Night Long (1962) is a re-telling of Shakespeare's Othello in which Othello is Rex, the famous leader of a jazz band, Desdemona is a singer called Delia and Iago is the band's drummer, Johnny.
The film was directed by Basil Dearden and stars Patrick Mcgoohan and Richard Attenborough plus several major jazz stars of the day, including Tubby Hayes, Charles Mingus, Johnny Dankworth and Dave Brubeck.
Film & theatre composer, Gary Yershon, returns to Soho Bites to talk about the film.
Watch a trailer for All Night Long
And look at these (badly colourised) lobby cards
Our other guest is a two time finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition, Saxophonist, Tom Smith. Tom has an intriguing connection to the late Ronnie Scott and we recorded both interviews at Ronnie's famous club.
On the same day we recorded the interviews, Tom as performing at Ronnie Scott's that night with the band, Resolution 88.
Here's some more of the Tom's music on Soundcloud and you can find more details about him on his website and of course, follow him on Twitter.
During lockdown, Tom and his big band did that remote recording thing.
Watch one of Tom's performances on BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year.
We were first introduced to Tom through the legendary
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