Passing the Torch documents a ninety year old Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, mentoring teenage musicians with a thirst for knowledge and an appreciation of America's homegrown art form, Jazz. Director Bret Primack captures Heath's gentle, humorous sharing of life lessons and the non-threatening way he guides aspiring artists to musical excellence. An esteemed mentor, Mr. Heath reaches a much younger generation by understanding his role, to be dependable, engaged, authentic, and finely tuned to their needs.
The Hot Club of Montevideo is a Uruguayan cultural institution founded in 1950 by the pianist Paco M...
The documentary film on the life and legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk – a one of a kind musician, perso...
A documentary on Dizzy Gillespie's landmark visit to Cuba and his performance at the Fifth Internati...
A seventy-six-minute version of Häxan, re-edited and re-released in the United States by Metro Pictu...
Weed. Marijuana. Grass. Pot. Whatever you prefer to call it, America’s relationship with cannabis is...
A feature- length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda.
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, cele...
This feature documentary offers a glimpse of contemporary Cuba’s rich musical culture through the ex...
A documentary about Cairo Jazz Festival's Amr Salah and his struggle every year to bring people and ...
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
Inside Out In The Open is an hour-long documentary about a form of jazz, popularly known as free jaz...
In 1999, on the occasion of the centenary of Ellington's birth, Franco Maresco commissioned Steve La...
Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touchi...
Thursday 27th of October 2016 – Teatro Espace, Turin. Mulatu Astatke is a musician, composer, arran...
Motian In Motion is a documentary film about iconic jazz drummer Paul Motian, with rare footage of P...
Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of W...
Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in ja...
A portrait of the mythical band Bembeya Jazz, which contributed to the heyday of Sekou Touré’s cultu...