Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage in addition to interviews and performances by such living legends as Pinetop Perkins and Jay McShann, as well as Dave Brubeck and Marcia Ball.

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...

A mother struggles to hold her family together as multiple crises threaten to destroy them.

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her lat...

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team u...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...

This film by director Ramon Tort documents a unique moment in the life and career of Andrea Motis: t...

A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a grou...

Aurora, daughter of retired Jazz composer Hugo, is informed that his father’s Alzheimer’s disease ha...

Melbhattan. Melbhattan is part homage, part pastiche of the opening sequence of Woody Allen's semina...

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic par...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant f...

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of W...
On November 30, 2017 the National Park Service and National Park Foundation will present the annual ...

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two America...