Martino Unstrung Film Director Ian Knox Interviewed at AAJ

When the rare combination of a serious film director, neuropsychologist and legendary jazz musician join together to make a movie about a catastrophic series of events in the musician's life, the result has the ;potential to be electrifying. That is how the film, Martino Unstrung engages the viewer.

The stories, personalities, and audio-visual images come at the viewer with the relentless rapidity of a Martino guitar run. The result is a driven, honest, and moving narrative that could only have been made by a director who loves jazz, humanity, and film-making with equal passion and dedication. Such is Ian Knox, the prime mover of what is perhaps the finest documentary about a jazz musician ever made.

AAJ Contributor Victor L. Schermer continues his extensive look at Martino Unstrung that began yesterday with his Martino interview, Pat Martino: Martino Unstrung, by interviewing the affable Knox about the challenges and joys of making the film.

Check out Ian Knox: Filming Pat Martino's World at AAJ today, read Schermer's review of Martino Unstrung: A Brain Mystery here, watch the trailer to Martino Unstrung here and visit the movie website here.

And don't forget to check out Schermer's interview with neuropsychologist Paul Broks tomorrow!