There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, where the camera prowls around bassist Chris Wood as he slowly saws his upright bass on an upstate New York tennis court dotted with fallen leaves. There are a lot of scenes like that in “Not Not Jazz.” I suspect that if you’re as interested in the process of music as in the result, it’ll be one of the elements you’ll like most about the movie.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/not-not-jazz-documentary-movie-review-2024
The trailer is here: https://youtu.be/pon7EKYNe14
It’s available on AppleTV or however you watch stuff like this.
MMW was, together with Joe Pass, my first experimentation with anything resembling jazz back when I was a kid and had access to some of these private torrent trackers for music (first oink and later waffle.fm). I loved End of the World Party, and made me explore further anything with a “jazz”-label on it at the time. So I feel I owe them some debt for that.
Documentary seems interesting, and I’ll add it to my watchlist.