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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...

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

This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America

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

A stop motion/collaged based independent short film plays with the recontextualisation of memories and how time distorts them.

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

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

Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a...

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...

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...

Angel Bat Dawid - one of the great jazz discoveries of recent years as a guest at Chassol in Ground Control. Chicago-native Angel Bat Dawid is one...

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