The Jazz and Cinema conference, to be held at Cardiff university on 1-2 November, has unveiled details of its programme. Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Film and Visual Culture Research there are six panels in all with three papers presented at each session. Subjects include Japan, jazz and cinema; The Fabulous Baker Boys soundtrack; The Nat King Cole Show; biopics; jazz and animation; 1930s and 40s Chinese cinema; jazz in fiction in the 80s and 90s; and the film music of John Dankworth. The key note address on filming improvisation is by Dr Nicolas Pillai from Warwick University, a researcher in British film and television history who also teaches on music and visual culture. 
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Dexter Gordon playing Dale Turner above centre in a promotional still from 1986 film Round Midnight. Herbie Hancock, playing piano in the photo, won an Oscar for best original score