Film

Fire Music

Name: Fire Music
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2021-09-10

2021 · 1h 28m · Documentary · Music

A history of the free jazz revolution.

IMDb: 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic: 85

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Overview

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.