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.

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

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

A struggling young man secretly plays a magical trumpet that transports him from his desolate world ...

Recorded Live at Tokyo International Forum Hall A on December 9th, 2007

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

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

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

Ozzy, beset on all sides by the eccentricities of the artists around her, meets Jack, a city-dwellin...

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two America...

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

Kansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird” Parker...

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

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

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

Ella Fitzgerald visited Australia back in 1960. Gracefully stepping up to the microphone for the cel...

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...

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

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...