Free Jazz Movies
- 2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes02005HD
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 mu...
- 1959
The Cry of Jazz
The Cry of Jazz5.91959HD
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 mus...
- 2021
Fire Music
Fire Music72021HD
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, C...
- 1986
Ornette: Made in America
Ornette: Made in America6.31986HD
Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.
- 2008
Sunny's Time Now
Sunny's Time Now4.52008HD
Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a seri...
- 1967
You See What I’m Trying To Say?
You See What I’m Trying To Say?01967HD
In this short film from 1967, filmmaker Henry English attempts to place a context around saxophonist and composer Marion Brown’s flurries of notes and...
- 2023
Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center
Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center02023HD
Filmed in and around percussionist Milford Grave’s last public concert in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens.
- 2020
Thick Air
Thick Air6.82020HD
An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to underst...
- 1966
Wealth of a Nation
Wealth of a Nation01966HD
This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America
- 2012
Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann
Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann52012HD
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 shame...
- 2022
Angel Bat Dawid - Ground Control
Angel Bat Dawid - Ground Control02022HD
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 of...
- 2013
Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969
Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969102013HD
Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary Jazz pianis...
- 2023
Streetlight Opus
Streetlight Opus02023HD
When two buskers find themselves situated on the same busy street corner, a musical battle ensues when the musicians realise that the lively city isn'...
- 2003
City of the Winds
City of the Winds02003HD
Documentary about the Chicago jazz scene.
- 2024
Duende: Joëlle Léandre solo
Duende: Joëlle Léandre solo02024HD
- 2010
J.D. Allen Live
J.D. Allen Live72010HD
- 2024
Sonny Sharrock Band - Lucerna Hall Prague 4.10.90
Sonny Sharrock Band - Lucerna Hall Prague 4.10.9002024HD
The Sonny Sharrock Band live in Prague as part of the Knitting Factory Festival Tour of Europe 1990.
- 2006
AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg)
AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg)02006HD
This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-W...