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Woody Allen has long pursued a career as a jazz musician alongside that of a film-maker, and indeed his films come alive with the swirling beat of New York jazz. It was the astonishing talents of the saxophonist Sidney Bechet that inspired Allen's love of jazz. This fascinating film recalls Bechet's extraordinary life, and finds out why he had such an effect on Woody Allen as well as a host of other celebrities - Wynton Marsalis, Humphrey Lyttelton and Bob Wilber among them.