Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Arild Andersen

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Georg Baselitz

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Stefano Bollani

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Till Brönner

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

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Richard Cook

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Wolfgang Dauner

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Karl-Heinz Drechsel

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Manfred Eicher

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Jon Fait

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Jan Garbarek

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Michel Godard

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Dusko Gojkovic

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Juliette Gréco

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Arve Henriksen

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Anders Jormin

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Joachim Kühn

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Paul Kuhn

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Gérard La Viny

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Albert Mangelsdorff

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