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RANCE has long had a particular way of processing American art. When it comes to jazz, the Gallic eye and ear for that music and culture has rarely been more acute than in . Bertrand Tavernier’s 1986 drama pays tribute to the post-war generation of expat musicians who made Paris their base – including Bud Powell, Lester Young, Miles Davis briefly (he created the score to Louis Malle’s there) and tenor sax titan Dexter Gordon, the star

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