To Music

The documentary film Lucas Debargue: To Music has been made by Martin Mirabel, a long-time friend of Lucas. Mirabel is granted full access behind the scenes, and is able to provide a window into the kind of processes that go into performing and recording, and taking us to locations that include Paris, Moscow, Berlin, Weimar and Chicago. Debargue returns to his childhood town of Compiègne and reminisces about a time that has since become an unending source of inspiration and renewal. Less

well-known aspects of his musicianship are explored, such as that eternal search for the essence of swing in jazz and the collaborative nature of his work as a composer. Recorded with the utmost sympathy and drawing out uniquely revealing aspects of Debarque's life and perfectionist personality at the launch of his already astounding career in music, this is a valuable and magnetically entertaining document that none of his many fans will want to miss.