Saxophone Colossus (1998)
• January 1st, 1998 • 1h 41min
Music, Documentary
Overview
Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz improviser. In 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge produced Saxophone Colossus, a feature-length portrait of Rollins, named after one of his most celebrated albums.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Genesis: Together and Apart
Released on: 2014-10-04
Music, Documentary
A feature-length documentary about one of the most successful British bands in rock music. The film ...
Tubular Bells: The Mike Oldfield Story
Released on: 2013-10-13
TV Movie, Documentary
Documentary about the musician Mike Oldfield, whose 1973 album Tubular Bells launched the Virgin rec...
44 Pages
Released on: 2018-04-18
Documentary
A portrait of Highlights Magazine following the creation of the cultural phenomenon's 70th Anniversa...
Images of the Estado Novo 1937-45
Released on: 2016-04-15
Documentary
Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movi...
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Released on: 1991-11-29
Documentary
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made t...
Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me
Released on: 1994-01-01
Documentary
New York based artist, Cindy Sherman, is famous for her photographs of women in which she is not onl...
The Road Forward
Released on: 2017-04-30
Documentary, Music
The Road Forward is an electrifying musical documentary that connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s c...
Mermaids
Released on: 2017-04-28
Documentary
In this tribute to the eternal allure of an ancient myth, colourful fins and swimming pools fill the...
Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español
Released on: 2010-05-24
Documentary
Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of ...
King Corn
Released on: 2007-10-12
Documentary
King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ...
What We Do Is Secret
Released on: 2007-06-23
Drama, Music
The true-life story of Darby Crash, who became an L.A. punk icon with his band The Germs. Along with...
The Great Northwest
Released on: 2012-09-01
Documentary
The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in...
Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell
Released on: 2000-01-01
Documentary, History, TV Movie
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...
Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition
Released on: 1912-05-24
Documentary
Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...
Dying for Everest
Released on: 2007-05-05
Documentary
On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...
The Identical
Released on: 2014-09-05
Music, Drama
During the Great Depression, identical twins are separated at birth. One, Drexel Hemsley becomes a w...
Heaven Adores You
Released on: 2014-05-14
Documentary, Music
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By th...
To You, Wherever You Are
Released on: 2001-05-03
Documentary
After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dre...