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Milt & Honi / Charles "Honi" Coles [film]
- Title
- Milt & Honi [Film]
- Performers
- Coles, Charles "Honi"
- Bufalino, Brenda
- Published/Created
- 1985
- Genre
- Film
- Note
- East River Film and Tape company
- Abstract
- Milt & Honi, a feature-length film documentary starring Milt Hinton and Charles "Honi" Coles, features jazz playing and dancing on a rare level, though the documentary is unfinished. Documentary shows segments with the jazz bass player Milt Hinton and his friend, tap dance master Charles Honi Coles with Brenda Bufalino.
Directed by Louise Tiranoff
Narrated by Gregory Hines
Milt Hinton, bass; Bobby Rosengarden, drums; Mickey Tucker, piano
The men jam together, playing their mutually created composition,"You and Me" a counterpoint of taps and bass. then they are joined by Bobby Rosengarden on drums and Mickey Tucker on piano, and they continue with their own compositions as well as jazz classics.
The two break for lunch at New York's China Song restaurant and have a conversation that spans their artistic lives, from their days with Cab Calloway's band to the present. They discuss their work technically and philosophically. Honi expands on the role of tap dancers in the creation of the bebop style and Milt tells vivid stories about his family's migration from Mississippi to the new and thriving world on Chicago's South Side in the 1920s, a time and place already recognized as one of music's golden ages.
A highlight of the film is a special appearance by tap dancer Brenda Bufalino. She and Honi jam with Milt and the band to the tune "All God's Children Got Rhythm." A segment of that scene opens with Hinton playing "Jericho";
Coles and Hinton in "Old Man Time";
Honi sings his tune, "Get Yourself Another Guy";
To Duke Ellington's "A Train" Honi does the Copasetics' Walkaround;
The band plays "Just You, Just Me" at a medium tempo and Bufalino improvises;
Bufalino and Coles improvise; followed by another superb duet "Bobpadabopdop Dance Away Your Blues' and finishing with an extremely slow soft-shoe to "Taking a Chance on Love."
(Louise Tiranoff, "Milt & Honi" International Tap Association Newsletter, vol. I, no. 3, spring 1989, p.12.)
- Source
- New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance ().
- International Tap Association: On Tap! International Tap Association Newsletter. Also titled ITA Journal. Published by the International Tap Association ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015