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The Adventures of *

Jim Lochner February 23, 2011 1

From the earliest days of sound film, animation and jazz have made hip, beautiful music together. From swinging classics like Warner Bros.’s “I Wanna Singa,” starring “Owl Jolson,” through more experimental animation in the

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Urbanissimo

Urbanissimo

Jim Lochner May 25, 2009 1

“There’s a remarkable connection between animation and jazz,” Faith Hubley once observed. “There’s something about jazz’s bending of time within a rigid format that also applies to animation. Film time is different from regular

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