Kopple and her camera crew trailed Allen and his Dixieland jazz band as they toured through Europe in 1996, playing to mostly adoring audiences that (it has to be said) seem pretty primed to be adoring regardless of what the music sounds like.

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Historic music venues were hosting musicians playing every style of jazz, from Dixieland to Free Jazz.

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He liked trad jazz -- aka Dixieland, the dominant style of dance music in Britain at the time -- until he discovered the saxophonist Charlie Parker.

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Jazz clubs jump with everything from traditional Dixieland to more experimental contemporary music.

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