Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as historic and contemporary concert footage, it reassesses the relationship between the libertarian music movement and the political events of the 1960s, whose social claims it so intimately reflected. By doing so, it also recounts how the most radical forms of musical expression were excluded from the major production and distribution networks as the libertarian ideal went out of fashion. Beyond its historical approach, the film follows Sunny Murray on current gigs, showing his daily struggle to perpetuate a musical genre which is still widely ignored by the general public. In doing so, Sunny's time now also dwells on the near-clandestine community of aficionados who continue to worship the gods of their musical coming of age, and whose unfaltering support has permitted free ...
The Sonny Sharrock Band live in Prague as part of the Knitting Factory Festival Tour of Europe 1990.
How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolut...
Filmed in and around percussionist Milford Grave’s last public concert in his neighborhood of Jamaic...
When two buskers find themselves situated on the same busy street corner, a musical battle ensues wh...
This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America
In this short film from 1967, filmmaker Henry English attempts to place a context around saxophonist...
An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of ...
This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and compose...
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...
Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.
Angel Bat Dawid - one of the great jazz discoveries of recent years as a guest at Chassol in Ground ...
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward...
Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important...
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pi...
The bold and ferocious harmonic imagination of John Coltrane is laid bare in this concert, captured ...
A perspective and reflection on the work of Gabriel Ferrandini.
A short experimental film about the effects digital noise and lack of privacy can have on interperso...