Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe (2006)

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 Barber, Jan Garbarek, Juliette Gréco, Stefano Bollani and Till Brönner, to name but a few.

Producers	Danmarks Radio (DR), ARTE, ZDF, Yle, Benedikt Pictures GmbH & Co. KG (München), Schweizer Fernsehen (FS), Delphi Filmverleih Produktion, Eikon Media GmbH, Jazzclub Birdland
Original title	Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
Directors	Julian Benedikt
Writers	Julian Benedikt

Cast

Arild Andersen

as Self

Georg Baselitz

as Self

Stefano Bollani

as Self

Till Brönner

as Self

Dee Dee Bridgewater

as Self

Richard Cook

as Self

Wolfgang Dauner

as Self

Karl-Heinz Drechsel

as Self

Manfred Eicher

as Self

Jon Fait

as Self

Jan Garbarek

as Self

Michel Godard

as Self

Dusko Gojkovic

as Self

Juliette Gréco

as Self

Arve Henriksen

as Self

Anders Jormin

as Self

Joachim Kühn

as Self

Paul Kuhn

as Self

Gérard La Viny

as Self

Albert Mangelsdorff

as Self

Palle Mikkelborg

as Self

Marilyn Mazur

as Self

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

as Self

Enrico Rava

as Self

Antonello Salis

as Self

Coco Schumann

as Self

Louis Sclavis

as Self

Martial Solal

as Self

Tomasz Stańko

as Self

Stan Tracy

as Self

Emilhenco

as Self

Christian Wallumrød

as Self

Joe Zawinul

as Self