Free Jazz Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Documentary about the Chicago jazz scene.

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

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