Improvisation

Music
Documentary

1/1/2004

Storyline

Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977, Joe Pass 1979, Ella Fitzgerald 1979, and Oscar Peterson at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977.

Director:: Norman Granz

Cast

Count Basie
Self
Duke Ellington
Self
Ella Fitzgerald
Self
Dizzy Gillespie
Self
Coleman Hawkins
Self
Charlie Parker
Self
Oscar Peterson
Self
Buddy Rich
Self
Lester Young
Self
Ray Brown
Self
Hank Jones
Self
Flip Phillips
Self
Harry Edison
Self
Joe Pass
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Durham
Self
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Self