Director: Isabelle Soulard
Production company: Polygone Onze
Duration: 52 minutes
Here's how Hanna Schigulla presents her work around Brecht and Kurt Weill: "... what is Brecht saying to me today? That's what I want to talk about through his words and through the music of Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler the best known as well as the less known Brechtlieder. Here and now the communist model is outmoded. Nevertheless, the rich are becoming...
Director: John Dauriac
Composer: Joshua Redman
Production company: Polygone Onze
Joshua Redman is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Redman won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991, and began focusing on his musical career. He was signed by Warner Bros. Records and issued his first self-titled album in the spring of 1993, which subsequently earned Redman his first Grammy nomination.
Director: Renaud Gilles
Composer: Marisa Monte
Production company: Polygone Onze
Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian singer, composer, instrumentalist, and producer of Brazilian popular music and samba. As of 2011, she had sold 10 million albums worldwide and has won numerous national and international awards, including four Latin Grammys, seven Brazilian MTV Video Music Awards, nine Multishow de Música Brasileira awards, 5 APCAs,...
Director: Renaud Gilles
Composer: Aziza Mustafa Radez
Production company: Polygone Onze
Hailing from Azerbaidjan, Aziza Mustapha Zadeh is, according to those in the know, the feminine equivalent of Keith Jarret or Chick Corea with the same kind of dual career, playing sometimes in a trio (with Patitucci and Weckl) and sometimes solo.
Director: Serge Bergli
Composer: Brecker Brothers
Production company: Polygone Onze
Brecker Brothers was the jazz duo of Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker. Michael played saxophone, flute, and EWI, and Randy played trumpet and flugelhorn. Both brothers had prolific recording careers as leaders of their own ensembles. Their collaboration ended in 2007 when Michael Brecker died from leukemia.
Director: Serge Bergli
Composer: Chick Corea
Production company: Polygone Onze
A solo piano performance, with a "classical" repertoire featuring Monk, Bud Powell, Gershwin or Strayhorn. Chick Corea also performs some of his own compositions, like “Armando’s Rumba”, a tribute to his own father.
Author: Jean-Marc Zelwer
Director: Serge Bergli
Composer: Jean-Marc Zelwer
Production company: Polygone Onze
Duration: 99 minutes
Le parfum européen est toujours présent au côté d’éléments de tango musique baroque mongole etc ... gracieusement tressés par Zelwer pour former une suite de pièces un voyage imaginatif à travers le temps... un voyage autour d’un thème : les grandes religions les béatitudes et les déchirements qu’elles engendrent sur cette terre... Pourquoi les dieux...
Director: Serge Bergli
Composer: Taraf Haidoucks
Production company: Polygone Onze
Duration: 120 minutes
Ce groupe de gitans « lautari » (troubadours) originaire du petit village de montagne de Clejani en Roumanie est composé d’une dizaine de musiciens dont l’âge varie de 14 à 72 ans et qui vivent pour et par leur musique. Cette musique qui ponctue chaque événement de la vie sociale du village : baptême mariage enterrement récolte. La plupart des 200 gitans...