Jazz Movies

The (mostly) true story of the greatest jazz drummer you've never heard of who stumbled upon a 16-year-old singer and nurtured her into a legend.

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they...

A dissatisfied young man creates a false identity to feel accepted. In trying to be someone he's not, he finds himself lost between reality and...

Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the...

Recorded Live on July 18th, 1986 at "Montreux Casino", during the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland)

On November 30, 2017 the National Park Service and National Park Foundation will present the annual National Christmas Tree Lighting. Popular...

One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Dizzy Gillespie dazzled the world with his talent as one of the pioneers of be-bop and Latin jazz,...

Hubert Franier, an honest hospital extern, should never had got into trouble had he not been infatuated with Véra, a beautiful but stupid...

An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.

Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.

While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group The Seekers recall in flashback the origins of...

In 1980, American tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins taught a masterclass at Salle Wagram in Paris to Charles Schneider (tenor saxophone) Marc Thomas...

Zawinul is onstage with the WDR Big Band from Germany and a special international rhythm section. The music is a tribute to the pioneering 1970s...

Saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-1982) lived the kind of jazz life only found in Hollywood movies. His prodigious talent led him to top gigs as a...

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a...