On Piano

Documentary about jazz beginnings in Latvia from 1920s to 1940s through the portrait of the first known Latvian jazz pianist Jack Michalicky. “Our Jackie” – this is how Bars, the hotel restaurant's maître d', later wrote in his memoires. Michalicky was a musician from head to toe – if there was one place on Earth where he felt at home, it was at the piano. Slender, lithe, and with a rich imagin...