Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye

200352 min 50 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Colin Browne

Production: Cari GreenHarry SutherlandRobert Sherrin

Script: Colin Browne

Produced by Producers On Davie Pictures Inc., with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry CTF: Licence Fee Program, with the financial participation of Rogers Documentary Fund, with the participation of the Province of British Columbia, Film Incentive BC, with the assistance of the Canadian Film and Television Productions Tax Credit, in association with Bravo! Canada; developed with the participation of British Columbia Film Television and Film Financing Program, with the assistance of the Telus B.C. New Media and Broadcast Fund, and in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

This title is an acquisition.

Linton Garner was the musician's musician. He came to the attention of the jazz world with the Fletcher Henderson orchestra in the early 1940s and went on to work as a composer, arranger and pianist with Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and many others.

His career took him from Pittsburgh to New York, Los Angeles, Montréal and Vancouver. At the age of 87 he composed and performed a musical tribute to his brother Erroll (1923-1977), one of the world's great jazz pianists. "I wanted to write about how I felt," he said, "not just about Erroll's music but about Erroll himself."

This moving film, with its rare concert footage, is a testament to the musical genius and humanitarian spirit of a man who dedicated his life to the 20th-century art form that changed the world.

Subject categories


  • Music > Jazz and BluesPortraits

Credits


writer
Colin Browne
director
Colin Browne
producer
Cari Green
Harry Sutherland
director of photography
Kirk Tougas
editor
Michael Bateman
additional photography
Rolf Cutts
sound recordist
Jeff Henschel
additional sound
Jonathan Ritchie
production manager
Larisa Andrews
Laura Grieco
production coordinator
Hazel Cho
research
Larisa Andrews
clearances
Larisa Andrews
production assistant
Tami Wilson
Shokey Green
Marc Borja
Oliver Cruz
assistant editor
Rafi Spivak
sound supervisor
Gael MacLean
sound designer
Gael MacLean
post audio engineer
Gary Morgan
graphic animation
Darrin Brown
Frank Van de Ven
transcription
Pamela Pellegrini
Rainmaker program manager
Deirdré Bennett
colour timing
Ernie Moser
titling
Fred Richters
closed captioning
Line 21 Media Services Inc.
still photography
Rosamond Norbury
production accountant
Sherrill Sirrs
legal services
Eva Schmeig
announcer
Paul Grant
technical producer
Bob Glumac
camera
Rick Kyle
Rick Smalley
Glenn Weston
recording engineer
Gary Morgan
Derek Bird
audio assistant
Ken Bérubé
VTR
Liz James
switcher
Steve Herrod
remote maintenance
Ray Wong
archivist
Roy Harris
Colin Preston
executive producer
Robert Sherrin
musician
Miles Black
Russ Botten
Cecil Brooks III
Kate Hammett-Vaughan
John Hicks
Ron Johnston
Stewart Loseby
Réjean Marois
Campbell Ryga
Albert St. Albert Smith
Ross Taggart
Steve Maddock
Siri Olesen
Lane Price
Tia Turner
post-production services
Rainmaker Digital Pictures
audio post-production
CBC Vancouver
motion control
Carousel Video Workshop
video transfer
Carousel Video Workshop