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JAZZ TO WATCH

December 16 to December 31

The Cinema La Plata invites you to a unique programming. A series of documentaries on the life and work of the most important artists of the jazz culture. Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Charlie Haden, among others.

THE MILES DAVIS STORY, directed by Mike Dibb
Great Britain, 2001 / 125 '

A large pan for life and work of Miles Davis, using an interview in his last years and the voices of fellow travelers in their multiple musical explorations: the drummer Jimmy Cobb, the only surviving recording of Kind of Blue, an eloquent John McLaughlin, who has fusion cuisine with imitation of the teacher included.


ESCAPE TO THE SILENCE OF SMALL DIEGO
Chile, 2009 / 90 '

In the late 60's, the Chilean saxophonist Alfredo Espinoza shone in Buenos Aires as a member of the Portsmouth Jazz Band. Then he crossed the ocean and settled in France, where he received the admiration of the great European jazz. This documentary covers his work nomad and unravels the fate of an artist who seemed to vanish into thin air.


SELF Sonora, Mujica Manongo
Peru, 2010 / 45 '

PerúJazz integral as well as other musical projects, solo musician, visual artist and creator of soundtracks and multimedia shows, Peruvian percussionist Manongo Mujica makes himself a film illustrating the development of an extensive original composition, which combine improvisation jazz type a search in the Afro-Peruvian roots.


FRANK ZAPPA: A PIONEER OF THE FUTURE OF MUSIC, by Frank Scheffer
Holland, 2007 / 108 '

This Dutch documentary uses a rich archive itself to reconstruct the career of the legendary guitarist and composer Frank Zappa, author of orchestral gems as The Grand Wazoo and experiments related to fusion and free, in an inexhaustible flow and always tinged with humor . George Duke and Steve Vai are among the many who are excited remembering.


CHARLIE HADEN, Caduff Challenge
Switzerland, 2009 / 84 '

Charlie Haden played with all its low was the protagonist from the years of free jazz with whose king, Ornette Coleman, was also. Here he is with his family, telling his long story that combines art with political commitment, and testimonies of people surrounded by friends as Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and Carla Bley.