It's the end of something simple. And the beginning of everything else.

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear ...

Bertrand Tavernier, the prolific French filmmaker noted for films such as “Coup de Torchon” (1981), “A Sunday in the Country” (1984) and “Round Midnight” (1986), has died. He was 79. The director’s ...

Its Paris, 1959. Dale Turner (Dexter Gordon), an aging saxophonist, has come to play at the Blue Note jazz club. A huge, imposing figure whose speech is slurred and gravely, he appears to be either ...

Bertrand Tavernier, the prolific French filmmaker noted for films such as “Coup de Torchon” (1981), “A Sunday in the Country” (1984) and “Round Midnight” (1986), has died. He was 79. The director’s ...