Keith Jarrett – The Art of Improvisation | LEFFEST - Lisboa Film Festival

Throughout most of his career, Keith Jarrett has been totally dedicated to the “art of improvisation”. Keith Jarrett – The Art of Improvisation traces a brief chronology of his life, displaying rare images of performances by the jazz pianist and composer. Throughout the film, the interviewer, British pianist and author Ian Carr, favours an image of the musician which contradicts the dominant perception according to which Jarrett is seen as a temperamental person. The film, however, goes beyond its purpose as a documentary endeavour, attending to Jarrett’s reflections on music and improvisation, as well as to his collaboration with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette (the Standards Trio, as they were known).

Duration: 86
Production year: 2005
Country: United Kingdom
Subtitles: Original Version EN

Mike Dibb

Mike Dibb is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker, most of which made for television, covering film, art, literature, music, science, sport and popular culture. After completing a degree at Trinity College, Dublin, he was hired in 1963 by BBC TV. He worked as an editor in the Film department until 1967, when he moved to the Music and Arts department, where he remained until 1981. During this period he directed several films, including multiple collaborations with writer John Berger (who in 2015 was a guest at LEFFEST ), the most well-known of which is the four-part series Ways of Seeing, awarded the BAFTA for Best Specialty Series and which later became a book translated and published worldwide, one of the most important for several generations of artists and students of art. Dibb has also made some films about writers, such as Octavio Paz, Lorca, A-S. Byatt or Elmore Leonard. In 1981, he joined Third Eyes Productions, where he continued to direct and produce, primarily for Channel Four. In 1986, he created his own production company, Dibb Directions Ltd. He collaborated with the BBC once again, making films and series such as Made In Latin America, about Latin American culture. In 1994, he co-directed with Stephen Frears the documentary Typically British, about the history of British cinema. His film The Miles Davis Story won the Royal Philharmonic Society Television Award and an Emmy for Best Art Documentary of the Year (2001). He also made a film about Keith Jarrett and another about the composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazolla.

Keith Jarrett – The Art of Improvisation

Original title: Keith Jarrett – The Art of Improvisation

Mike Dibb

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