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Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

Original title: Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

Year

2012

Runtime

73 min

Genres

Documentary, Music

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.

Cast: Barbara Thompson, Jon Hiseman