Documenting Jazz Conference

Documenting Jazz Conference feature films and documentaries including some titles rarely seen on screen, this exciting partnership will provide many opportunities to consider the ways in which jazz is encountered as art, soundtrack, mythology, commodity, by the cognoscenti and by the broader public. How does what we see of jazz inform what we might hear, and how we might think about jazz. It will cover areas like Jazz and Capitalism, Jazz in the Popular Imagination, Jazz and Visual Culture, and Jazz and Improvisation.