Michiel ten Kleij

Playing the Changes is a film about what it is like to grow up as a jazz musician in a turbulent time of racial segregation in the US, political tension during the Cold War and applying these experiences to living and teaching in South Africa, in a time when it was ruled under apartheid law. Why did the unlikely hero Darius chose the path he took and how much of Dave Brubeck’s legacy is reflected in Darius’ career 100 years after Dave’s birth? And in what way can we benefit in our current days and in the future from the Brubeck legacy?