Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time poster

Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time poster

Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

2012 1h 13mMovie

DocumentaryMusic

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.

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Mike Dibb

Director, Writer

Top Cast

Barbara Thompson

Self (archive footage)

Jon Hiseman

Self (archive footage)