Introducing the greatest musician you’ve never heard of.

Cro-Magnon Pictures’ first feature is a hilarious and unique blend of mockumentary and stop-motion animation.  A Jazzman’s Jazzman tells the extraordinary  story of fictional jazz pianist Gerry Carruthers’ lifelong struggle for fame and recognition.  Through deadpan Ken Burns-style interviews of the people that loved and hated him, the viewer is taken inside The Silver Nugget, the Sacramento jazz club where Carruthers became infamous.  The highs and lows of Gerry’s life, from the release of his first and only hit song to the colossal failure of his 28-member jazz fusion experiment, are ‘dramatized’ using gorgeous stop-motion animation of one-of-a-kind character puppets.  A Jazzman’s Jazzman also features a lush original jazz score by Seattle musicians and composers.

Written and Directed by Ben Harris and Paul Maupoux

Director of Animation: Paul Maupoux

Character Puppets Created by: Eric “Two Scoops” Moore

Original Soundtrack by Birch Pereira and Tim Kennedy

Starring: Paisley Davenport, Ben Harris, David Anthony Lewis, Jessica Martin, Eric “Two Scoops” Moore, Terri Weagant, Jabrille Williams, and Robert Wright

A Jazzman’s Jazzman: The Gerry Carruthers Story by Ben Harris and Paul Maupoux is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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