Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

A Story of Jazz in Europe

  • Movie
  • 2006
  • 1h 30m
  • Documentary
  • Music

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.

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Director
Julian Benedikt
Starring
Arild Andersen, Georg Baselitz, Stefano Bollani, Till Brönner

Cast

  • Arild Andersen

    Self

  • Georg Baselitz

    Self

  • Stefano Bollani

    Stefano Bollani

    Self

  • Till Brönner

    Till Brönner

    Self

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater

    Dee Dee Bridgewater

    Self

  • Richard Cook

    Self

  • Wolfgang Dauner

    Self

  • Karl-Heinz Drechsel

    Self

  • Manfred Eicher

    Self

  • Jon Fait

    Self

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