44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 6/10
1. Let's Get Lost (Bruce Weber, 1988) Lofty yet sullen work from photographer Bruce Weber. It’s appropriately shot in film noir styled,...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 5/10
1. Who is Sonny Rollins? (Dick Fontaine, 1967) Fascinating, quite beautiful short doc. Dick Fontaine would pick up this story again in...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 4/10
1. Jackie McLean On Mars (Ken Levis, 1980) “ He is a king, man. Can’t he be a God and a king? The man’s 60. He’s been out here starving...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 3/10
1. Free The Jazz (Czabán György, 2008) This was such an obvious documentary to make that for years nobody bothered making it.Once was a...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 2/10
1. Listen Up! The Many Lives of Quincy (1990) This got panned on release. Critics hated what they saw as a failed effort at an artsy...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 1/10
1. Mingus: Charlie Mingus (Thomas Reichmann, 1968) I have a thing for this uncooked, ‘straight, no chaser’ style of documentary, where...
