Only few of the Jazz founders and great musicians, are still

alive. One of them is the composer, sax player and poet Yusef

Latif, who''s had an acclaimed career of over six decades. Today,

at the age of 84, he lives in small wooden home deep in the

woods of Massachusetts.

Directors Humbert and Penzel visited him at his home, creating

an intimate filmographic portrait that manages to avoid the

cliches of the genre. The film is temperate just like the notes

Latif produces when playing and pensive as the poems he

recites. Except for one archive insert from his 1962 performance,

Latif is the only person on screen, reminiscing duets with Gillespy

and others, playing different instruments, reciting poems or

simply sitting, thinking.