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Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

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Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

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1h 13m

2012

Synopsis

For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. But in 1997, the same year that she received an MBE for her services to music, disaster struck. Barbara was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. This is the story of Barbara's inspiring and creative struggle with this disease, whose physical effects are particularly cruel, and visible, in the life of an improvising jazz musician.

Director

Mike Dibb

DocumentaryMusic

Cast & Crew

Barbara Thompson

as Self (archive footage)

Jon Hiseman

as Self (archive footage)

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