Music Meets Film at Sundance

       Tupac and Dylan become celluloid heroes in Utah

      



... "Tom Dowd & the Language of Music, directed by Mark Moorman, is a brilliant documentary about the legendary, yet largely unknown, recording engineer/producer who gave Atlantic Records its distinctive sound and edge as rock and soul stormed up the charts in the Fifties and Sixties. Dowd is portrayed through loving anecdotes and interviews before his death, as a pioneer who recorded everyone from jazz greats like John Coltrane and Charles Mingus to Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Otis Redding. He almost single-handedly invented the 8-track recorder, as he went on to produce rockers like Cream, Derek and the Dominos, the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, before dying last year modestly and with only his memories and recorded legacy to leave behind."

by ANDREW STRICKMAN

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