Reading Journal #3

*Page number: 15

*Date published: February 26

*Author's name: Matt Pais

*Title of the article: Film not quite close enoigh to Cooper

* A summary of the article
The story tells us about the jazz singer Ron Cooper, which was a figure in Chicago jazz for many years, performing at the Green Mill and influencing local staples such as on Freeman and Fareed Haque (both of whom appear in this documentary, shot from 2005-2007). The film captures Cooper’s incredible voice during performances at sports including the platform of the Blue Line. It was a train on which the homeless spent sleeping for many years before he died (2007). He died in 2007.
The film doesn’t get as close to its subject as it could have. A lot of his friends and bandmates were speculating about information Grove should have gotten directly from Cooper, whose past largely remains foggy. He was chuckling about summarizing the price of an album as “$1 per tune”. The man had a wonderful voice and his song “If I’m Not Home” saying about painful gravitational pull of artistic talent and the way so many people shy away from the homeless. Constantly embraced and rejected, Cooper comes off as a people person, full of pride and regret, who didn’t realize stardom wasn’t going to make the first move until it was too late.

*My opinion:

The author tried to tell us the real story about the life of the man named Grove. How poor his life was. But its so sad that Grove's friends wanted to use his some unknown information abouthim to make their lifes better.