White Jazz by James Ellroy
Adapted by Mike Walker
Directed by Andy Jordan
BBC Radio 4 American Noir Season
High production values and some great Jazz.
CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE
Dramatization of WHITE JAZZ written by James Ellroy in 1992
Dave Klein remembers. He was a lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department during the fifties. He was the witness of the efforts
of Welles Noonan, a politician who wanted to clean up the Southern part of Los Angeles, territory of Mickey Cohen, the jazz joints,
the black people and the Kafesjian, an Armenian family dealing with drugs but protected by the police. He was also an active and
manipulated character of the rivalry between Dudley Smith, the most corrupted cop of L.A. and Ed Exley, the chief of the inspectors
of the Los Angeles Police Department.
When there is a burglary in the Kafesjian house, Dave Klein is assigned to the job by Ed Exley. He enters the intimacy of this family
and soon understands that this is not a common burglary. Who was the man watching every night Lucille Kafesjian wandering naked in
her room with her windows open ? His quest will drive him in the jazz clubs of South L.A. where he'll discover the heroes of be-bop,
the heroes of the white jazz..........................
The Cast:
Dave Klein.......................Stuart Milligan
Glenda...........................Angeline Ball
Ed Exley.........................James Laurenson
Dudley Smith.....................William Hootkins
Stemmons.........................Noel Margate
Kafesjian........................Andy Lucas
Hush-Hush........................Ray Schnell
Wiley............................Struan Rogers
Mickey Cohen.....................Glen Rage
with: Ian Kelly, Hugo Napier, William Roberts, Don Gillet, Ioan Meredith, Bob Sherman, Jason Shephard, Tracy Ann Obermann,
Martin McDougal, and William Marsh.
Directed by Andy Jordan.
source: tape recording of broadcast material
Type : mpeg 1 layer III
Bitrate : 128
Mode : stereo
Frequency : 44100 Hz
Length : 01:29:11
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