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Finding Carlton / a Half Diminished production ; a film by Susheel Kurien.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kitto, Carlton.
- Jazz musicians--India--Interviews.
- Jazz musicians.
- Jazz--India--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Guitarists--India--Interviews.
- Guitarists.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Interviews.
- Biographical films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (76 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Finding Carlton : uncovering the story of jazz In India
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Half Diminished Films, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Finding Carlton, an original and lovingly crafted new HD documentary of the story of jazz in India, explores the African American jazz diaspora in South Asia, and, for the first time, brings to life a remarkable example of early cultural globalization. Built around a portrait of surviving Indian jazzman, the maverick guitarist Carlton Kitto, audiences are taken on a richly atmospheric journey into India's little-known jazz age that lasted from the 1920s to the 1970s and until now has gone unrecorded in the history of that country and the history of jazz. What emerges is the unknown and mesmerizing story of a bygone era and the testimony of one of its last survivors, Carlton Kitto. A maverick dedicated to pure jazz, particularly bebop, Carlton, 68, is an unsung cultural custodian who has nurtured hundreds of young musicians in the jazz idiom, and who still plays to half-empty Calcutta hotels. Weaving verité scenes of Carlton's isolated, impoverished, yet passionately dedicated existence, Finding Carlton uncovers an untold story of cultural cross-pollination born of the pre-war African-American diaspora, the American Army presence in Calcutta during the Second World War, and of the US State Department's sponsored jazz tours in India. The film also illuminates the influence of American jazz on Bollywood and provides one of the earliest examples of cultural globalization.
- Participant:
- Carlton Kitto.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed October 07, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1549468776
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