Basic Info
Release: January 01, 1988
Runtime: 28 min
Status: Released
Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
1988
28 min
Overview
Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles: Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French-Canadian Jean Beaudet. It introduces viewers to the diversity of interpretation within today's jazz world, explores the roots of modern jazz and the specific formative influences on the musicians profiled, and reaches for a definition of twentieth-century jazz.
Genres
Documentary
Music
Production Countries
- Canada
Spoken Languages
- English en
- French fr
- Russian ru
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Cast
Oliver Jones
Self
Leonid Chizhik
Self
Jean Beaudet
Self
Crew
Martin Duckworth
Director
Éric Michel
Producer
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