Musical performers put on a show in a pawn shop to convince a man to give them the money they need to buy back their instruments.

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...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...

On the eve of graduation, a high school student finds herself dealing with both college applications...

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...

Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play ...

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

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...

Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himsel...

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...

Chart-topping jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and special guests performed two star-studded concerts at t...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant f...

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who ...

Inada plays Betty Yoshida, a singer and dancer from America who arrives in Japan to go on tour, only...
On November 30, 2017 the National Park Service and National Park Foundation will present the annual ...