The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
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A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...
In the wake of his father’s suicide, young record collector Ollie Sway returns to the family lake ho...
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save...
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial ...
When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trump...
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous consp...
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...
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Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...
Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San...