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Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman,...

Sometimes you’re at home with a friend and you tell them that if you don’t leave you’ll be late and the response is a crazy,...

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and shows freedom of expression in art,...

An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to...

When two buskers find themselves situated on the same busy street corner, a musical battle ensues when the musicians realise that the lively city...

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern...

Filmed during Max Devereaux’s senior year of high school with classmates as cast and crew, this black-and-white short tells the story of a man...

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

The bold and ferocious harmonic imagination of John Coltrane is laid bare in this concert, captured at the Comblain-La-Tour Festival in Belgium,...

How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and...

Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary Jazz...

Filmed in and around percussionist Milford Grave’s last public concert in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens.

This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in...

A few old friends get together to play some music.

Documentary about the Chicago jazz scene.

A perspective and reflection on the work of Gabriel Ferrandini.