Crossroads--Three Jazz Pianists

Duckworth, Martin, (film director.). Michel, Éric, (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: Shot in 1987 at the Montrǎl 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.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (27 min., 55 sec.) : sound
remote
access
Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2022.
Copyright: ♭1988

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:	No restrictions.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Martin Duckworth ; editing, Martin Duckworth ; producer, Éric Michel ; camera, Serge Gigur̈e ; sound, Claude Beauchemin ; sound editing, Alain Sauv,̌ Suzanne Bouilly ; re-recording, Hans Peter Strobl.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, Frederick Ward.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 1988.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-04-05).