Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate between earnestly offering the obvious and mocking the artiness of the whole affair.

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

A seventeen-year-old village school graduate, a guy nicknamed Kazan, dreams of becoming a famous rap...

BBC archivists recently unearthed a veritable treasure trove of Ella Fitzgerald shows recorded by th...

A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is tol...

Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to...

Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love ar...

A message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne and Garth to put on a roc...

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

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

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow hi...

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...

In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a ...

A docu-film that traces the victorious ride of Mancini's Azzurri, from the debut match to the final ...

Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. L...