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Cast
Sunny Murray | As: Self | |
Cecil Taylor | As: Self | |
Tony Oxley | As: Self | |
Val Wilmer | As: Self | |
Robert Wyatt | As: Self |
Storyline
Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as historic and contemporary concert footage, it reassesses the relationship between the libertarian music movement and the political events of the 1960s, whose social claims it so intimately reflected. By doing so, it also recounts how the most radical forms of musical expression were excluded from the major production and distribution networks as the libertarian ideal went out of fashion. Beyond its historical approach, the film follows Sunny Murray on current gigs, showing his daily struggle to perpetuate a musical genre which is still widely ignored by the general public. In doing so, Sunny's time now also dwells on the near-clandestine community of aficionados who continue to worship the gods of their musical coming of age, and whose unfaltering support has permitted free ...
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Cast
Sunny Murray |
Self |
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Cecil Taylor |
Self |
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Tony Oxley |
Self |
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Val Wilmer |
Self |
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Robert Wyatt |
Self |
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Edwin Pouncey |
Self |
Directed By
Antoine Prum |
Director |
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Writing Credits
Antoine Prum |
Writer |
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Production Crew
Paul Thiltges |
Producer |
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David Tioulong Grumbach |
Executive Producer |
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Edited By
Costume and Makeup
Sound
Visual Effects
Camera
Antoine Prum |
Director of Photography |
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Carlo Thiel |
Director of Photography |
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Theo Thiesmeier |
Director of Photography |
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Camille Cottagnoud |
Director of Photography |
Lighting
Art Department
Other Crew
Gilles Laurent |
Sound Recordist |
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Ken Fitzke |
Sound Recordist |
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Damien Dufresne |
Sound Recordist |
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Alexandre Davidson |
Sound Recordist |
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Fabrizio Dörig |
Sound Recordist |
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