The Hot Club of Montevideo is a Uruguayan cultural institution founded in 1950 by the pianist Paco Mañosa, along with his brother and some friends who played together. It was the first club dedicated exclusively to jazz in Latin America.
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
Early experimental film from Zbigniew Rybczynski that broke new ground in the use of pixelation, opt...
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...
A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.
Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.
ZAZ, in August 2014, completed a major tour spanning 5 continents, performing sold out each time. “O...
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Ar...
The concert captured on William "Count" Basie's entry in the "must-own" audio/video Jazz Icons serie...
"I swear, I wanted to make a “visual album” but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time...
A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the Afr...
In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rura...
Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.
Show Girls celebrates Montreal's swinging Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s, when the cit...
A documentary about the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959). There exist many myths an...
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...
A trumpet-playing cat and his jazz band invade Ye Olde Squaresville, a kingdom that has outlawed all...