Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

November 02, 2006 | 90 min

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.

Genres

Documentary Music

Cast

Naomi Scott

Georg Baselitz

Naomi Scott

Stefano Bollani

Naomi Scott

Till Brönner

Naomi Scott

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Naomi Scott

Richard Cook

Naomi Scott

Karl-Heinz Drechsel

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