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Sunny's Time Now (2008)
Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as historic and contemporary concert footage, it reassesses the relationship between the libertarian music movement and the political events of the 1960s, whose social claims it so intimately reflected. By doing so, it also recounts how the most radical forms of musical expression were excluded from the major production and distribution networks as the libertarian ideal went out of fashion. Beyond its historical approach, the film follows Sunny Murray on current gigs, showing his daily struggle to perpetuate a musical genre which is still widely ignored by the general public. In doing so, Sunny's time now also dwells on the near-clandestine community of aficionados who continue to worship the gods of their musical coming of age, and whose unfaltering support has permitted free ...
Updated May 29 2020
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Cast
Robert Wyatt
Sunny Murray
Himself
tony oxley
Val Wilmer
Edwin Pouncey
Crew
Gilles Laurent
Sound Recordist
Camille Cottagnoud
Director of Photography
Carlo Thiel
Director of Photography
David Grumbach
Executive Producer
Fabrizio Dörig
Sound Recordist
Antoine Prum
Director
Antoine Prum
Writer
Antoine Prum
Director of Photography
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