In 1999, on the occasion of the centenary of Ellington's birth, Franco Maresco commissioned Steve Lacy to perform ten songs by the Duke, which were recorded and filmed in Palermo. In 2024, twenty years after Lacy's death and fifty years after that of Ellington, that unpublished material re-emerges from the archive of the great Sicilian director and becomes a documentary.
The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds h...
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...
A documentary on Dizzy Gillespie's landmark visit to Cuba and his performance at the Fifth Internati...
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, cele...
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...
The Life & Times of Bobby Keys ... decades-long Sax player with The Rolling Stones, best friend to K...
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
Chart-topping jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and special guests performed two star-studded concerts at t...
Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himsel...
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...
Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed wit...
Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana a...
When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trump...
A pair wander the streets of Warsaw, meeting famous Polish musicians.
A documentary about Cairo Jazz Festival's Amr Salah and his struggle every year to bring people and ...
Passing the Torch documents a ninety year old Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, mentoring teenage musicians ...
Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touchi...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...