Sunny's Time Now (2008)
Sunny's Time Now (2008)
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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Sunny Murray Sunny Murray As: Self
Cecil Taylor Cecil Taylor As: Self
Tony Oxley Tony Oxley As: Self
Val Wilmer Val Wilmer As: Self
Robert Wyatt Robert Wyatt As: Self
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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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Genres: Music, Documentary

Language: Deutsch, English, Français

Release Date: 14 November 2008

Country: LU, FR

Runtime: 108m

Company Credits

Company: Paul Thiltges Distributions

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Production Crew

Paul Thiltges

Paul Thiltges

Producer

David Tioulong Grumbach

David Tioulong Grumbach

Executive Producer

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Costume and Makeup

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Sound

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Camera

Antoine Prum

Antoine Prum

Director of Photography

Carlo Thiel

Carlo Thiel

Director of Photography

Theo Thiesmeier

Theo Thiesmeier

Director of Photography

Camille Cottagnoud

Camille Cottagnoud

Director of Photography

Lighting

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Art Department

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Other Crew

Gilles Laurent

Gilles Laurent

Sound Recordist

Ken Fitzke

Ken Fitzke

Sound Recordist

Damien Dufresne

Damien Dufresne

Sound Recordist

Alexandre Davidson

Alexandre Davidson

Sound Recordist

Fabrizio Dörig

Fabrizio Dörig

Sound Recordist

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