French film director Bertrand Tavernier has died at the age of 79. One of his films Round Midnight (1986) (in French: Autour de Minuit) is one of the greatest depictions ever of jazz in a movie. Not only did it star Dexter Gordon in an acting role, it won Herbie Hancock, who is also seen in the action, an Oscar for best score and managed the feat of expressing the feel of jazz, Paris, a lost era, partly through the lens of passionate and caring fan Francis Paudras and fictionalised versions drawn together of often harrowing aspects of Bud Powell and Lester Young's lives that chime and speak volumes. Read a tribute to Tavernier in Libération
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