Lover Man

The heart of the matter is friend and mentor Mike Cartmell in an outtake from Alan Zweigs Vinyl 2000 Mike insists that listening deeply to music the music of Coleman Hawkins for example is an authentic relationship equal to human company The movie closes with Hawkins playing one of his signature tunes the jazz standard Lover Man along with Cozy Cole drums Barry Galbrath guitar Johnny Guaneri piano and Milt Hinton bass The midsection is occupied by an outdoors swimming pool along with a voiceover extolling the virtues of frustration