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Film / 2006
Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
Directed by
Julian Benedikt
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 …
The story
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.
Cast
Arild AndersenSelf
Georg BaselitzSelf
Stefano BollaniSelf
Till BrönnerSelf
Dee Dee BridgewaterSelf
Richard CookSelf
Wolfgang DaunerSelf
Karl-Heinz DrechselSelf
Manfred EicherSelf
Jon FaitSelf
Jan GarbarekSelf
Michel GodardSelf
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Dusko GojkovicSelf
Juliette GrécoSelf
Arve HenriksenSelf
Anders JorminSelf
Joachim KühnSelf
Paul KuhnSelf
Gérard La VinySelf
Albert MangelsdorffSelf
Palle MikkelborgSelf
Marilyn MazurSelf
Niels-Henning Ørsted PedersenSelf
Enrico RavaSelf
Antonello SalisSelf
Coco SchumannSelf
Louis SclavisSelf
Martial SolalSelf
Tomasz StańkoSelf
Stan TracySelf
Christian WallumrødSelf
Joe ZawinulSelf
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