Reboppin’ With The Wild One
Posted in Jazz Notes on Aug 23rd, 2007
As we head into this weekend’s “I Want to Live!” program, with Susan Hayward as a jazz-loving murder suspect, here’s a suggested companion show from our archives: the December 2004 program The Wild One. Released at the end of 1953, The Wild One is a key entry in the cinematic annals of jazz-as-the-soundtrack-of-rebellion (rendered here by Leith Stevens and some of the emerging West Coast usual suspects)… and it’s interesting to consider that…
In 1957 a young Robert Altman (future director of Nashville, MASH, and The Player) co-directed a documentary about 
