Your brother made a movie about you. What could possibly go wrong?
"Sax Maniac: The Life and Times of James Chance" delves into the groundbreaking career of James Siegfried, better known as James Chance or James White, a seminal figure in the late 1970s and early 1980s New York City "No Wave" music scene. Produced and directed by his brother, David Siegfried, the documentary chronicles James's journey from his early days in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he first explored jazz and protopunk.
Direction
Brother-director adds fascinating family friction
Production
Raw NYC footage feels stolen from another era
Director
David Siegfried
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
No Wave emerged when punk's energy collided with NYC's art school pretension — James Chance bridged both worlds by being impossible to categorize.
Chance's stage persona James White was partly a jab at the Black Jazz Artists he felt were mythologized by white critics.
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