The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit is a landmark double portrait of Detroit’s extraordinary jazz legacy and the dynamic city that produced it. Weaving a compelling historical and cultural tapestry, the film chronicles the defining influence of Detroit’s innovative jazz musicians while tracing the city’s dramatic rise and fall as an industrial power, the struggles and triumphs of its creative and resilient African American community, and the profound tradition of mentorship that has nurtured Detroit jazz since the 1950s.