Magnificent Red-Hot Jazzing Seven, The: Concept and Synopsis for Screen-Play-Jack Vance screen-play synopsis
Magnificent Red-Hot Jazzing Seven, The: Concept and Synopsis for Screen-Play-Jack Vance screen-play synopsis "The Magnificent Red-Hot Jazzing Seven: Concept and synopsis for screen-play" was first published in 2005 in the Vance Integral Edition . Vance was an avid jazz fan and even played the coronet , ukulele, kazoo, and harmonica. He often included in his novels characters who were musicians. In his mystery novels especially there are often reference to jazz music and musicians. This 12 page synopsis seems like a tribute by Vance to one of his favorite passions. This story is set in 1927 in the Midwest, and Vance states that it is intended as part of a sequence to The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven . The former is a great, classic Kurosawa film and the latter is a movie based on a similar theme but featuring cowboys instead of samurai. Vance here replaces samurai or cowboys with jazz musicians. Our story begins with a former co...