American jazz violinist and composer Zach Brock discovered a posthumous recording of Polish jazz violinist and composer Zbigniew Seifert six years ago by chance in a bargain-basement record store. This discovery forever changed his conception of jazz. The record was entitled, "Passion."
A double odyssey, Zach retraces Seifert's musical quest, tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 32 while on his own musical journey—himself, age 32, both men linked by a mutual desire to express the sound of post-Coltrane jazz on the violin. Traveling across the globe to reconstruct the life of an artist racing against mortality to achieve self-expression, Zach awakens in us the question of our own immanent desires by challenging his own. Passion is a testament to the world that affirms, through Zbigniew Seifert, the irrepressibility of human creativity and the phenomenon of a universal expression that transcends nationality and time.
A double odyssey, Zach retraces Seifert's musical quest, tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 32 while on his own musical journey—himself, age 32, both men linked by a mutual desire to express the sound of post-Coltrane jazz on the violin. Traveling across the globe to reconstruct the life of an artist racing against mortality to achieve self-expression, Zach awakens in us the question of our own immanent desires by challenging his own. Passion is a testament to the world that affirms, through Zbigniew Seifert, the irrepressibility of human creativity and the phenomenon of a universal expression that transcends nationality and time.
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