Barbara Thompson: Playing Against TimeMovie
For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. But in 1997, the same year that she received an MBE for her services to music, disaster struck. Barbara was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. This is the story of Barbara's inspiring and creative struggle with this disease, whose physical effects are particularly cruel, and visible, in the life of an improvising jazz musician.
About Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time is a 2012 documentary, music movie directed by Mike Dibb.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 13m, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Barbara Thompson, Jon Hiseman. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
