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.

This Emmy-nominated TV special highlights rare performance footage filmed between 1968 and 1969 at v...

During the summer of 1980, the American jazz concert pianist Kazzrie Jaxen writes a 16 pages long le...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...
Documentary exploring the meaning and history of cool through the American music that started in the...

The film follows three renowned vocal coaches and their students during private lessons. As the pupi...
A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...

A documentary about the jazz standard and it's roots in Jewish and African-American culture/

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] ...

Vipal Monga's first feature-length documentary chronicles an unprecedented series of concerts perfor...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker T...

The film follows the quartet from collaborative development of new music to a live performance at Ne...
In 1999, on the occasion of the centenary of Ellington's birth, Franco Maresco commissioned Steve La...

A feature-length tour of Amsterdam's thriving jazz scene.

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

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

A documentary about a life dedicated to jazz, as told by Velibor Pedevski, who has been living among...