Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

Name: Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
Director: Julian Benedikt
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2006
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Cast: Arild Andersen, Georg Baselitz, Stefano Bollani, Till Brönner, Dee Dee Bridgewater

"A Story of Jazz in Europe"

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2006

1h 30m

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.