6/10
An enjoyable enough documentary/concert film from 1985 focusing on mostly the New York avant-garde jazz scene. Charles Gayle and Peter Kowald are the central figures but Kowald's interviews are too brief and Gayle is never reeled in - he's sometimes interesting, mostly rambling. I also felt a bit cheated that the movie was more focused on talking and long handheld cam shots of urban New York (which are admittedly well-done and visually appealing) than on performance footage but there's some worthwhile stuff from Peter Brotzmann, John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Don Cherry, Charles Tyler and others. If some of those names are of interest to you you'd probably enjoy the movie but I wouldn't fret if you can't track it down either.
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