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David Murray is one of the last heroes of jazz, music he took to the dizzying heights. So much so that he touched the formal limits, the four golden rules of jazz: Blues, Swing, Ballad and Latin rhythms. That’s why this American saxophinist, at the peak of his fame, chose to cross the Atlantic and settle in Paris in the mid-1990s. Like other Afro-Americans, Murray found opportunities in Paris to expand his musical spectrum, and enrich his universe, irrigating it with new influences without changing its trajectory. Like Richard Wright, he met the black, African and West Indian, diaspora in Paris. In Paris, he could also create a jazz opera, Pushkin, about the Russian poet, the "negro of Peter the Great." The show will open the next season of La Scala. It also marks a special moment where the call of the homeland is strongest. This film is the account of these constant comings and goings to the four corners of jazz, to the four corners of the black Atlantic.

France - 2007 - 52 mn - HD - Colour

Director Jacques Goldstein Writer Jacques Goldstein, Jacques Denis Camera Jacques Goldstein Sound Rémi Alexandre Editing Jacques Goldstein

Production La Huit Production, 218 bis, rue de Charenton, 75012 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5344 7088 Fax : +33 (0)1 4343 7533 E-mail : production@lahuit.fr Co-Production ARTE France

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