Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe (2006)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Arild Andersen

Self

Georg Baselitz

Self

Stefano Bollani

Self

Till Brönner

Self

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Self

Richard Cook

Self

Wolfgang Dauner

Self

Karl-Heinz Drechsel

Self

Manfred Eicher

Self

Jon Fait

Self

Jan Garbarek

Self

Michel Godard

Self

Director & Crew

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