A Concerto is a Conversation | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow  | dG1fQjFHZnNTQVBHOFU

Transcript

00:00It's a real pleasure to welcome Chris Bowers, our composer.

00:06I'm very aware of the fact that I'm a black composer.

00:09I've been wondering whether or not I'm supposed to have gotten to the point that I've gotten to.

00:14Well, never think that you're not supposed to be there,

00:17because you wouldn't be there if you weren't supposed to be there.

00:22Goes back to slavery.

00:24The reason why I love this film so much,

00:26it feels like I'm watching my own family, and I was blown away by it.

00:31Growing up in the South,

00:33I knew when I got of age I was going to leave it.

00:37Los Angeles, California, that's where I want to go.

00:44There's an intimacy to this exchange within the sphere of black masculinity

00:49that is so rare to see.

00:52I think it's a balm for these times.

00:54People are constantly throwing up things.

00:56They're not going to stop you in life.

00:59But you've got to know,

01:00you cannot stop me.

01:04And the winner is Chris Bowers.

01:07Green Book.

01:11Can you tell me just, what is concerto?

01:16You did it, you did it, you did it.

01:21He surprised you a little bit.