{"id":8894,"date":"2014-05-19T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T02:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8894"},"modified":"2014-05-19T22:50:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T02:50:27","slug":"tjff-2014-nat-hentoff-and-he-pleasures-of-being-out-of-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8894","title":{"rendered":"TJFF 2014: Nat Hentoff and the Pleasures of Being Out of Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tjff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8832\" alt=\"TJFF2014_banner\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TJFF2014_banner.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TJFF2014_banner.jpg 535w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TJFF2014_banner-300x21.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist David L. Lewis began his documentary on noted jazz an Civil Rights journalist Nat Hentoff around 2007, eventually filming his subject for both a documentary film and oral history book.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for his extensive liner notes to numerous classic jazz LPs \u2013 Miles Davis\u2019 <b>Sketches of Spain<\/b>, for example \u2013 and a jazz critic &amp; astute interviewer, Hentoff has also championed the disenfranchised and the oppressed in publications such as the Village Voice, and enjoyed fierce discourses with critics in any venue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PleasuresBeingOutStep_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8888\" alt=\"PleasuresBeingOutStep_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PleasuresBeingOutStep_poster.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PleasuresBeingOutStep_poster.jpg 214w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PleasuresBeingOutStep_poster-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a>The film, <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8886\"><strong>The Pleasures of Being Out of Step<\/strong><\/a>, recently screened at the <a href=\"http:\/\/tjff.com\/film-info.php?id=2800&amp;sortby=&amp;filterby=\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Toronto Jewish Film Festival<\/a> and began its theatrical run at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema this past weekend. Featuring a wealth of stills, rare performance footage by jazz greats, and numerous archival news pieces of his activism in print, it\u2019s a sometimes anarchically structured doc that nevertheless is heavy on facts and interviews \u2013 new and archival \u2013 and worth a peek.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Coming next<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">: \u00a0Woody Allen&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Broadway Danny Rose<\/strong> on Blu from Twilight Time + related docs screened at the 2014 TJFF<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TJFF 2014: review of David L. Lewis&#8217; detailed documentary on jazz and Civil Rights journalist Nat Hentoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2788,2562,2563,2787,2789,2746,2778],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NatHentoff.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2js","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8894"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8906,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8894\/revisions\/8906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}