Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, regarded as one of the true giants of post-war music. Seated at his beloved and battered piano in his Brooklyn brownstone the maestro holds court with frequent stentorian pronouncements on life, art and music.

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play ...

Painter Françoise Gilot shared Pablo Picasso's life from 1943 to 1953. This union nourished their re...

About the art explosion in Amsterdam during the 1980's when artists of all sorts found spaces and pl...

Several comic greats pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded by Budd Friedman in 1963.

A film documenting the soulful art, environments, and voices of self-taught artists on the back road...

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet,...

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese...

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker n...

Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana a...

At the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, New York, Dr. Janos Martin helps treat patients with ...

Embark on the epic ride of Jim Phillips, the genius behind skateboarding and rock culture's electrif...

The two musical masters swing out.

Oscar Peterson is accompanied by the stellar duo of bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen for eac...

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for fou...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a max...

When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner ...

Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who ...