Lester Bowie

A music documentary about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, with Chan Parker, Bill Miles, Dizzy Gillespie, Walter Bishop Jr, Sheila Jordan, George Wein, Bruce Ricker, Earl Coleman, Doris Parker, Roy Haynes, Tommy Potter, Lester Bowie, Jimmy Slyde, Santi Debriano, Henry Threadfill Sextet, Olu Dara, Charles Austin Trio, Paul McIsaac, Jacqui Casto, Steve Ben, Israel, Leroy Williams, Billie Holiday, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins.

Céline, jeune femme libérée, fait la connaissance de Philippe Aignan, un riche homme d'affaires et, contre toute attente, s'en éprend et accepte de devenir sa femme alors qu'elle n'a collectionné jusque-là que des aventures suivant son style de vie beatnik. La vie bourgeoise et les mondanités l'ennuient très vite et elle se lie avec Julia, épouse de l'une des relations de son mari. Les deux amies envisagent de coécrire un ouvrage sur les mœurs sexuelles lorsque Julia meurt dans un accident de voiture bêtement occasionné par son mari. Ce qui provoque immédiatement la rupture de Céline avec Philippe et un milieu qui ne sera jamais le sien.

1984 performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cecil Taylor

"Lester Bowie : trumpet - Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman : reeds - Malachi Favors : bass - Famoudou Don Moye : percussion + Fontella Bowie : vocals "Festival de Chateauvallon 1970"

Montreux Jazz Festival, 1983

A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.

The musicians of the ‚Art Ensemble of Chicago’ have been performing their portrayal of jazz from past and present since 1967, not unlike a journey backwards in time aroused by an ancestral call to the myths of Africa. But what happens before their concerts? NULL SONNE NO POINT is the magnificent chronicle of the preparation for a concert and invites us into the very heart of the music, following the musicians backstage, at their rehearsals and moments of privacy and concentration, seeking the fluctuating emotions before the music begins.

Twenty years ago five talented musicians decided to start a musical revolution in their native Poland and established a cult band. However, as time went by, their creative paths turned in different directions.

The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s.

An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.