Cairo Jazzman (2017) on Netflix
NR20171h 22mDocumentaryMusic
Amr Salah, a jazz pianist, organizes the Cairo Jazz Festival with almost no support from Egypt's authorities. Its audience is young, and days before the festival a location falls through.
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Plot summary
For Amr Salah, jazz means freedom as much as it means music, and the pianist spends his energy promoting the genre. Every year he stages the Cairo Jazz Festival, though he calls himself a musician and a fan first, not a festival director. Jazz in Egypt draws an audience that is noticeably young, which marks it off from the older generation that governs the country, and the authorities give his festival almost no backing. As the festival approaches, problems both large and small appear, and a venue he was counting on becomes unavailable at short notice. Fellow musicians and his proud parents describe what drives him.
