Fire Music (2021)
Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz
A history of the free jazz revolution.
88 min
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.
- Release date
- September 10, 2021
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Carla Bley as Self
- Bobby Bradford as Self
- Dave Burrell as Self
- Gary Giddins as Self
Crew
- Rashied Ali · Archive footage
- Albert Ayler · Archive footage
- Don Cherry · Archive footage
- Ornette Coleman · Archive footage
- John Coltrane · Archive footage
- Eric Dolphy · Archive footage
- Tom Surgal · Director
- Tom Surgal · Writer
- Dan Braun · Producer
- Tom Surgal · Producer
- Joseph Wemple · Producer
- Lin Culbertson · Composer
- Daniel Ehrenbard · Cinematographer
- Jens Jurgensen · Cinematographer
- John Northrup · Cinematographer
- Jim Spring · Cinematographer
- John Northrup · Editor