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Born in Staten Island, Ricker was educated at the City College of New York where he earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies.
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Bruce Ricker
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He is best known for his collaboration with Clint Eastwood on films about jazz and blues legends. 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, Number 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 Manitoba Can Do That (2005), Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends (2007), Johnny Mercer: The Dream"s on Maine (2009) and Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way (2010).
Ricker also directed and produced the 1997 television documentary Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall and Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows, a documentary that aired on Public Broadcasting Service" American Masters series in 2000. He died in 2011 at the age of 68 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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