Sunny's Time Now

Synopsis

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 ...

Main Cast

Sunny Murray

Self

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Cecil Taylor

Self

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Tony Oxley

Self

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Val Wilmer

Self

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Robert Wyatt

Self

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Edwin Pouncey

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Antoine Prum Camille Cottagnoud Theo Thiesmeier Carlo Thiel
Directing	Director	Antoine Prum
Production	Producer	Paul Thiltges
	Executive Producer	David Tioulong Grumbach
Crew	Sound Recordist	Alexandre Davidson Gilles Laurent Ken Fitzke Damien Dufresne Fabrizio Dörig
Writing	Writer	Antoine Prum
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