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Fernando Trueba. Photographer Gonzo Suárez<br />
Fernando Trueba on his approach to the score<br />
“That was a very important decision. The first temptation was<br />
to pick up some Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker and put it in<br />
the movie. But I had this idea of using contemporary musicians<br />
playing the original musicians’ style. Then I have to do like a<br />
cast for a movie. You have to find a sax tenor player who can<br />
play as Ben Webster used to play, or an alto saxophone player<br />
who can play as Charlie Parker used to play, or a trumpet<br />
player who can play in the Dizzy Gillespie style, and that was<br />
very interesting from a musician’s point of view. To have Freddy<br />
Cole who is the real brother of Nat King Cole singing for his<br />
brother, that was really fun to do. But the recording was really<br />
complicated. We had sessions in Spain, New York, Cuba, it was<br />
a lot of work. We had duets and combos and big bands, we had<br />
string sections.”
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