Joe Zawinul: A Musical Portrait

By award-winning director Mark Kidel, one of the world’s leading directors of music programmes, features an illuminating documentary profile of one of the world's foremost jazz keyboard players and composers, along with an electric performance by the Zawinul Syndicate at The Point in Cardiff (Wales) in 2004. Shot in an unusually intimate manner, the film communicates powerfully the immediate excitement of jazz as a no-holds-barred, risk-embracing adventure: the shooting and editing highlight the exceptional collective improvisation and musical dialogue which characterise Zawinul’s work.