“Evergreen” (1965)
While attending UCLA’s film school, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison worked on a student film, Evergreen, about the romance of a jazz musician (played by Henry Crismonde) and an art student (Dorothy Fujikawa, Manzarek’s then-girlfriend and future wife).
Heavily influenced by the French New Wave and Beat literature, the film was a cinematic form of jazz, according to Manzarek, and featured music by Herbie Mann and the Bill Evans Trio, and the Jazz Crusaders.
The following year, Manzarek and Morrison transitioned from cinema to rock, as founding members of The Doors.
