Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe(2006)

🎬90 min
📅2006-11-02
🎭Documentary, Music

Overview

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps independent of American jazz and the various changes of direction that have repeatedly occurred in European jazz in the search for that "own voice" that European jazz musicians have helped to form. Featuring the great masters of European jazz such as Chris Barber, Jan Garbarek, Juliette Gréco, Stefano Bollani and Till Brönner, to name but a few.

Production

DR, ARTE, ZDF, YLE, Benedikt Pictures GmbH & Co. KG (München), Schweizer Fernsehen (FS), Delphi Filmverleih Produktion, Eikon Media, Jazzclub Birdland

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Cast

Arild Andersen
as Self
Georg Baselitz
as Self
Stefano Bollani
as Self
Till Brönner
as Self
Dee Dee Bridgewater
as Self
Richard Cook
as Self
Wolfgang Dauner
as Self
Karl-Heinz Drechsel
as Self
Manfred Eicher
as Self
Jon Fait
as Self