as real as it gets...
This is quite simply a great piece of filmmaking - whether you're in it for the music or the documentary aspect or anything in between. Daniel Kraus opens the world of performer / composer Ken Vandermark to the viewer as naturally as opening a door. This is gritty and realistic - no limos, no screaming fans such as one might see in a rock music documentary. The life of a jazz musician is not an easy one - especially one dealing in improvised and composed music that takes listeners to the edge of a pretty scary precipice and threatens to nudge them over. Mundane day-to-day activities - checking phone messages, returning calls, arranging gigs and tour schedules - are given screen time along with the expected scenes of rehearsing and performing. It's all part of the life of a working musician whose goals are to move himself as well as his audience and bandmates rather than to force his art into a convenient box for mass-marketing. There's a living to be made here - but as...
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