Catalogue des films de « Gérald Arnaud »

Solal at the piano : an outpouring of ideas, rhythms, melodic inventions, harmonic inspirations, surprising inventions (that he modestly calls "technical solutions"), all that makes up improvisation sounds like the most ingenious of...

Ray Barretto added a touch of Afro-cuban colour to the jazz of New York. By combining the Latin and black American cultures, this virtuoso conga player has influenced jazzmen all over the world. This is the portrait of a percussionist who has...

At the dawn of the 40's, a young trumpet player, born in 1917, jostled the established order of jazz that, even the period, began to grow bourgeois. His name was John Birks Gillespie. His audacity, his inventiveness, were to make him one of the...

Un concert à Paris en 1997. Sur la scène obscure s'élève une voix qu'accompagne le son lourd d'une grosse caisse. Max Roach joue, chante et parle. Le batteur fait entendre les origines ; il invoque les ancêtres. Puis il nous entraîne dans...

"Monsieur Bechet" is the first documentary in the world telling the incredible story of Sindey Bechet who ventured far from his native America, accompanying the emergence of jazz about to conquer the world. His itinerary is illustrated by rare...

Louis Amstrong is one of the greatest jazz musician of the 20th century. The audience is not always aware of it, as he was considered as a wonderful entertainer, the dominant embleme of American show-business at its zenith. That is the reason why...

With his "piano jazz", Fats Waller participated in the Harlem Renaissance, artistic and political statement of American Blacks.

Former musicians from the Count Basie Orchestra evoke that extraordinary "swing machine" and the best jazz band conductor.

Endowed with a superhuman energy used in a spiritual and artistic quest, the saxophonist widened the field of improvization.

The white musician who, by integrating the harmonic subtleties of the great European composers has made the biggest mark on the evolution of jazz.