Free Jazz Movies

A perspective and reflection on the work of Gabriel Ferrandini.

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

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

Herbie Hancock delivered a historic all-star performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 16, 2010. The concert, held at the Auditorium...

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

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

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...

Documentary about the Chicago jazz scene.

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...

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and shows freedom of expression in art,...

Filmed during Max Devereaux’s senior year of high school with classmates as cast and crew, this black-and-white short tells the story of a man...

The Sonny Sharrock Band live in Prague as part of the Knitting Factory Festival Tour of Europe 1990.

Filmed in and around percussionist Milford Grave’s last public concert in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens.

Filmmaker Jamal Ademola documents Akua Shabaka and her mother, Rebecca Henry, the creative minds behind the fashion label House of Aama, as they...

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

Sometimes you’re at home with a friend and you tell them that if you don’t leave you’ll be late and the response is a crazy,...