Jury Dox

More than forty years ago Dick Fontaine made a film with the brilliant and influential jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who suddenly rejected fame and ‘the jazz life’ to play alone high above the traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge, NY. Back then the film followed him on his lonely journey to find out why. What was he searching for? Now, forty-three years later, in the context of his historic 80th birthday concert and with the help of other jazz legends, Ornette Coleman, for example, whom Sonny invited to celebrate the history of his music with him, Beyond the Notes follows his extraordinary journey, still refusing stereotype and compromise, still searching for answers to his music and his life.