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‘The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit’ documentary
A local documentary premiering at the 2024 Freep Film Festival, “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit,” explores Detroit’s jazz legacy and impact on the world. Host Stephen Henderson talks with co-producer and writer Mark Stryker at the Detroit Film Theatre about the documentary, Detroit's influence on modern jazz, and the conditions that existed to create the sounds of jazz in the 1940s.
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