TV / FILM: Documentary: Art Blakey

Dick Fontaine remains one of the world’s finest music documentarians. The British filmmaker also has had a knack for identifying major trends early and capturing them in their nascent form. Among his subjects have been the Beatles (filmed four days after Ringo joined the band at Liverpool’s Cavern club in 1962), Ornette Coleman (1966), Sonny Rollins (1968) and hip-hop (1984)…