Fresh from taking part in the Mwandishi “one-night-only” reunion in New York last month here’s reedist Bennie Maupin’s new crowdsourced funding campaign explained in the video, above.

The idea: a jazz musician takes his ensemble to the rainforest of Brazil “to exchange music, culture and more.”

Maupin has hooked up with documentary maker Paul Sabu Rogers filming in Manaus in Brazil last year.

The film has already been screened at a film festival in Texas, and the plan now via the fundraising drive is to distribute it more widely on the US and international film festival circuit. There is more information at Indiegogo.