free jazz movies

Wealth of a Nation (1966)
0 / 10

Documentary

This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America

Thick Air (2020)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, Music

An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to...

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005)
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Documentary, Music

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern...

Fire Music (2021)
6 / 10

Documentary, Music

Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman,...

Sunny's Time Now (2008)
4.5 / 10

Music, Documentary

Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a...

AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg) (2006)
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Documentary, Music

This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in...

Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969 (2013)
10 / 10

Music

Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary Jazz...

You See What I’m Trying To Say? (1967)
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Music

In this short film from 1967, filmmaker Henry English attempts to place a context around saxophonist and composer Marion Brown’s flurries of notes...

Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann (2012)
5 / 10

Documentary

How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and...

Streetlight Opus (2023)
0 / 10

Music, Drama

When two buskers find themselves situated on the same busy street corner, a musical battle ensues when the musicians realise that the lively city...

J.D. Allen Live (2010)
7 / 10

Music

Angel Bat Dawid - Ground Control (2022)
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Music

Angel Bat Dawid - one of the great jazz discoveries of recent years as a guest at Chassol in Ground Control. Chicago-native Angel Bat Dawid is one...

Duende: Joëlle Léandre solo (1969)
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Music