Albert Magnoli graduated from the Film School at the University of Southern California. While there he completed ten student films, culminating with his Thesis Film project Jazz, which he wrote, produced, edited, and directed. Focusing on the lives of three Los Angeles jazz musicians, Jazz went on to win fifteen filmmaking awards in this country and abroad including a Student Academy Award. The twenty-four minute film is listed in the 1983 edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica as the most h ...[Read Story]