Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon

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Release date: May 30, 2008

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Movie Info

Jazz trumpeter Jack Sheldon perseveres through substance abuse and personal tragedy.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Doug McIntyre, Penny Peyser
Release Date (Theaters):

May 30, 2008 limited
Box Office (Gross USA):

$19.7K
Runtime:

1h 30m

Cast & Crew

Doug McIntyre
Director

Penny Peyser
Director

Doug McIntyre
Writer

Penny Peyser
Writer

Critic Reviews for Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon

All Critics (3) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (3)

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.

May 30, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
Beautifully photographed with an impossible to forget score.

September 26, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0 | Full Review…

Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
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.

June 5, 2008 | Full Review…

James C. Taylor
L.A. Weekly