Crossroads: Three Jazz Pianists

Crossroads: Three Jazz Pianists was released on January 1, 1988.

Crossroads: Three Jazz Pianists was directed by Martin Duckworth.

Crossroads: Three Jazz Pianists has a runtime of 28m.

Crossroads: Three Jazz Pianists was produced by Éric Michel.

Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles--Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French-Canadian Jean Beaudet. It introduces viewers to the diversity of interpretation within today's jazz world, explores the roots of modern jazz and the specific formative influences on the musicians profiled, and reaches for a definition of twentieth-century jazz.

The key characters in Crossroads: Three Jazz Pianists are Self (Oliver Jones), Self (Leonid Chizhik), Self (Jean Beaudet).

Crossroads: Three Jazz Pianists is a Documentary, Short, Music film.