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Bruce Ricker (October 10, 1942 – May 13, 2011) was a jazz and blues documentarian. He is best known for his collaboration with Clint Eastwood on films about jazz and blues legends. ==Life and career== Born in Staten Island, Ricker was educated at the City College of New York where he earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies. He earned a law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1970. His first film was the critically acclaimed ''The Last of the Blue Devils'', a 1979 feature-length documentary about Kansas City jazz during its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. Eastwood was the executive producer for ''Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser'', a 1988 documentary produced by Ricker and Charlotte Zwerin, who also directed. Ricker developed the idea for the Eastwood-directed "Piano Blues" segment of ''The Blues'', the seven-part 2003 series executive produced by Martin Scorsese. Eastwood served as a producer or executive producer on documentaries Ricker made for television: ''Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That'' (2005), ''Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends'' (2007), ''Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me'' (2009) and ''Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way'' (2010). Ricker also directed and produced the 1997 TV documentary ''Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall'' and ''Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows'', a documentary that aired on PBS' ''American Masters'' series in 2000. He died in 2011 at the age of 68 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Ricker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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