Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon passing by the apartment hears him singing and advises him go to his wife's gypsy tea room. As she reads the tea leaves, she sees situations which lead to Cab and his orchestra performing musical numbers.

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn j...

Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked hi...

Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry...

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

Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jaz...

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of W...

In Germany, jazz had a voice: Inge Brandenburg. This is the story of a woman in the 1950s and 1960s,...

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

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

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

Gino Vannelli Live In L.A. was recorded at the Saban Theatre Los Angeles California November 8th 201...

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter...

A musician tries to get by working several jobs.

What was supposed to be a 40 minute performance gets extended another 20 minutes with 3 more songs t...

Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim is a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgeral...

Tenor saxophonist Jimmy McGary was a major presence in the Cincinnati music scene from the 1950s unt...

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

A lizard conductor leads his symphony orchestra when suddenly he encounters a noise that disturbs th...
Legendary singer, actor, and jazz pianist Nat King Cole was prominent in the mid-1900s. Though he pa...