Edito de The Wayman Tisdale StoryQuestion: If you were down to your final days on earth, would you have the courage and foresight to capture those concluding moments on film? Musician and sports legend Wayman Tisdale did, and the Wayman Tisdale Story is evidence that Tisdale celebrated a supreme love of music right up until the end. Not many people can succeed in dual careers like sports and music, but Wayman Tisdale juggled a fruitful career pounding the boards in the NBA, while performing and recording on bass in the melodious Contemporary Jazz genre. ?This is an amazing story of human courage and faith,? said director Brian Schodorf, ?It?s everything you look for in a movie. From the kid playing bass in his dad?s church, going on to the University of Oklahoma, to joining the NBA, then back to music, and finally all that he went through towards the end.? Before and after the NBA, Wayman Tisdale lived the good life, raising a family of his own, a wife and four children, while tossing off chart-topping Contemporary Jazz CD?s as if they were free throws. Then after a decade of playing music, 2007 was the year it all went wrong. Surviving a vicious fall down the stairs of his home, he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer that soon rendered his powerful knees brittle and broken. At first, his brother Weldon called the injury ?a blessing.? Yet after months of chemotherapy, Wayman found that the cancer, while ?outed? couldn?t be ousted. So he began a two-year medical battle that is chronicled in this movie. ?The film has been a journey, from March in 2009 when we began setting everything up,? said Schodorf, ?to shooting until the very end of April, down in Memphis, where we filmed his last live concert with George Duke. We then interviewed Wayman in Tulsa in May of 2009 just before he passed away on the 15th.? Wayman Tisdale left behind an impressive discography of nine CDs, of which a cogent 13-track sampler is included inside this CD + DVD disc package. In addition to an unreleased track produced by Jeff Lorber, the audio disc (as well as the film) concludes with the moving tribute, ?Cryin? For Me,? sung by Country superstar Toby Keith. Wayman?s music occupies a wide sonic spectrum, ranging from Contemporary Jazz, R&B to ?Fonk.? And while we can no longer enjoy the richness of his ?bassmanship? live and in the flesh, The Wayman Tisdale Story gives us the most lasting part of the Tisdale legacy, which former-Laker A.C. Green refers to in the film as that ?go-to? NBA smile. ?The family told me that watching the film was like seeing him again, another chance to reach out and touch him,? Schodorf said. ?A lot of people told me that Wayman?s personality reminded them of Magic, and everybody still talks about that smile.? Lire la suite