Music lovers will appreciate the film’s soundtrack, which is made up of seminal selections by some of jazz’s greatest artists. Margot Hentoff says of her husband, who is approaching 90, “He reads and he writes. That’s all that he does.” Hentoff himself says, “I write to write.”
Famed jazz historian and author Ashley Kahn explains how, and why, jazz translates so well in non-western countries such as Japan.
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