Fire Music
Sep 10, 2021 | IMDB 7
88 min Watch NowDocumentary, Music
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane - are today acknowledged as central to the evolution of jazz as America's most innovative art form. FIRE MUSIC showcases the architects of a movement whose radical brand of improvisation pushed harmonic and rhythmic boundaries, and produced landmark albums like Coleman's Free Jazz: A Collective Inspiration and Coltrane's Ascension. A rich trove of archival footage conjures the 1960s jazz scene along with incisive reflections by critic Gary Giddins and a number of the movement's key players.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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What a Team!
Steely Dan: Two Against Nature
The Benny Goodman Story
Pete Kelly's Blues
The Gene Krupa Story
End of the Rainbow
Stormy Weather
Paris at Dawn
Kids on the Slope
Let's Get Lost
RAYE: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2024
Seeds of Success - Alvin Queen
Automatic Writing
Diana Ross: The Lady Sings Jazz and Blues
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
Magma - Myths and Legends Volume II
Magma - Myths and Legends Volume IV
'Round Midnight
Filthy Betrayal
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IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 1980
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1957
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IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2000
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IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1956
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IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 1955
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IMDB 7 | Dec , 1959
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 1986
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IMDB 6.9 | Jul , 1943
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IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 1957
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IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 2018
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IMDB 6 | Mar , 2020
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 2017
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IMDB 9 | Aug , 2014
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IMDB 8 | Jan , 1992
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IMDB 5.9 | Sep , 1990
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2006
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2008
'Round Midnight
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1986
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IMDB 10 | Jun , 2013
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