Academy Award winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) traveled to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden and the United States, to get at the heart of Latin Jazz, a blend of traditional Jazz and Latin percussion influences that has grown into a singularly potent form of music. Calle 54 is a once-in-a-lifetime event, capturing all the force, energy and sheer brilliance of these exceptional musicians in a single film for the very first time and revealing how their music has become a vehicle for protest, storytelling, sexuality, and most of all, the sheer joyful celebration of life. Among those immortalized in some truly memorable performances are: cutting edge Jerry Gonz
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