Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

About Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps independent of American jazz and the various changes of direction that have repeatedly occurred in European jazz in the search for that "own voice" that European jazz musicians have helped to form. Featuring the great masters of European jazz such as Chris Bar…

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe is a 2006 documentary music film directed by Julian Benedikt. It runs 90 minutes and was released in November 2006.

Arild Andersen appears as Self, Georg Baselitz as Self, Stefano Bollani as Self, and Till Brönner as Self. The screenplay is by Julian Benedikt. It streams on Qello Concerts by Stingray Amazon Channel and Stingray Djazz Amazon Channel in the United States.