Jazz Movies

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label...

This film by director Ramon Tort documents a unique moment in the life and career of Andrea Motis: the months preceding the recording of her first...

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps...

After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns...

The Life & Times of Bobby Keys ... decades-long Sax player with The Rolling Stones, best friend to Keith Richards, and session player with John...

A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.

New York: Every night the mysterious "Night Owl" goes on the air with her moody radio show. She seems to have an inexplicable influence on some men;...

In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's "Black Journal" television program—legendary jazz...

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...

Satchmo. There are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied 20th-century...

The North Sea Jazz Festival is a festival held annually on the second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. The British soul singer...

Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette live in Tokyo. 1. You Don't Know What Love Is 2. With A Song In My Heart 3. When You Wish Upon a...

NEWLY REMASTERED AND SHORTER! WITH IMPROVED QUALITY AND DIRECTOR APPROVED! How do you spell Schizophrenia? Screaming won't stop, crying won't help....

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

This Final Performance Tribute began on Les Paul's 90th birthday when luminaries from the musical world gathered to celebrate at New York's historic...

When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trumpet, loves Jazz and his methods are...