_Jazz Icons: Louis Armstrong_ is one of the only known complete Armstrong concerts from the 1950s to be captured on film. This 55-minute set, filmed in Belgium in 1959, features many of Satchmo's greatest songs including "Mack The Knife", "When It’s Sleepy Time Down South" and "Stompin' At The Savoy," backed by his stellar band the All-Stars, featuring Trummy Young, Peanuts Hucko, Billy Kyle, Danny Barcelona and Mort Herbert.
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, cele...
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Miles Davis performing live at Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood Massachusetts on August 18, 1970. ...
A pair wander the streets of Warsaw, meeting famous Polish musicians.
Passing the Torch documents a ninety year old Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, mentoring teenage musicians ...
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
A feature- length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda.
The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds h...
In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."
A biographical film featuring the music and times of Bill Evans with interviews from Tony Bennett, J...
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...
The two musical masters swing out.
Oscar Peterson is accompanied by the stellar duo of bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen for eac...
A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abs...