Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists (1988)

Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists

1988

Documentary Music

Synopsis

Shot in 1987 at the Montréal 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.

Credits

Director

Martin Duckworth

Cast

Jean Beaudet as Self

Leonid Chizhik as Self

Oliver Jones as Self

Crew

Serge Giguère (Director of Photography)

Martin Duckworth (Editor)

Éric Michel (Producer)