44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 8/10
1. Thelonious Monk: American Composer (Matthew Seig, 1991) "If you can sit and play a tune... in tempo. For an hour. I don't think...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 7/10
1. Türkiye'de Caz (Jazz in Turkey ) (Batu Akyol, 2013) One of the musicians cites "Take 5" as an example of a camouflaged Turkish beat...
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,...
In a Ska-Lent Way: 24 Skas & Rocksteadys of Jazz origin
1. Baba Brooks - "Musical Communion" (Reid 1956) Originally Sonny Rollins "St Thomas" (1926) If you didn’t already know, Jamaican...
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...
101 Miracles of Eighties Jazz: Pt 10(1989)
1. David Murray - Deep River (DIW) David Murray (tenor sax) Dave Burrell (piano) Fred Hopkins (double bass) Ralph Peterson Jr. (drums) An...
