The Life Love and Hate of a Free Jazz Man and His Woman

This is the story of Arthur Doyle once a promising saxophonist in the New York school of Jazz New Thing in the late 1960s and 1970s Doyle like many of his contemporaries has struggled to maintain a healthy balance between life and music The evidence of years spent pursuing a completely original sound is all around him It is in his eyes in his home and in the voices of his family This film tells the story of a man who managed to live through his relationship with music Now nearly 70 Doyle seems to be defying those forces that would keep him as a footnote in the history of American music