Short film
Only Jazz
1996 · 15 min
A quiet, intimate look at musical mentorship, with the city and club scenes adding texture to the patient work of improvisation.
- Directed by
- Ignacy Szczepański
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Overview
- Ignacy Szczepanski's documentary is a record of a lesson in jazz improvisation given to Polish trumpeter Piotr Bal by an accomplished musician and dean of the jazz faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The rehearsals are complemented by shots of the city and fragments of a concert filmed at the Pink Crocodile Club.
- How it feels
- Earnest and warm. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Art, music, education, work
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ignacy Szczepański
- Genres
- Documentary, Music