Production values are rough, but the lack of polish serves both Sheldon’s raffish, off-color persona and the film’s argument that L.A. jazz is still alive in small nightclubs, not something confined to a much-mythologized past.
Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008)
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Fresh:2
Rotten:0
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Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Jack Sheldon, Chet Baker
Starring: Jack Sheldon, Chet Baker
Reviews for Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon
Despite -- or, perhaps, because of -- his cult status, Sheldon makes a compelling centerpiece for the lively, nostalgic documentary Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon.
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