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Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

0.0 90 mins Documentary   Music   2006
DR   ARTE   ZDF   YLE   Benedikt Pictures GmbH & Co. KG (München)   Schweizer Fernsehen (FS)   Delphi Filmverleih Produktion   Eikon Media   Jazzclub Birdland  
Director(s): 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 name but a few.

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