Cool Cats

In the mid-1960s, tenor saxophone stars Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon leave behind America. When they reach the Danish capital Copenhagen, they end up staying for years. Here, they find caring jazz-loving population who greets the two tenor sax players as musical saviors. They are getting paid after jobs and the Danish women are more than happy to make the musicians feel at home. But is the Danish experience really the dream that it seems to be?

The film’s visual backbone consists of Ben Webster’s own 8MM footage which resurfaces here for the first time. Furthermore, the film contains numerous rare clips with the two jazz greats.