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.
In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Gr...
The Happines Boys Billy Jones and Earnie Hare are invited to a party, but separate themselves from t...
The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he ne...
A musician tries to get by working several jobs.
Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.
Artie Shaw and his orchestra perform four popular songs, "Alone Together", "Jeepers Creepers", "Deep...
An aspiring conductor finds himself in his dream position, conducting an orchestra that doesn't exis...
Legendary singer, actor, and jazz pianist Nat King Cole was prominent in the mid-1900s. Though he pa...
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist,...
After a divorce with her childhood friend, arrogant socialite Tracy Lord is remarrying but her ex-hu...
A world famous conductor suffers while leading a mediocre orchestra.
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-to...
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his...
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. ...
A little girl dreams that she's in Mother Goose Land filled with all sorts of Hollywood movie stars.
The first part of this Academy Award-winning short consists of a behind-the-scenes look at the Los A...
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an a...
The concert captured on William "Count" Basie's entry in the "must-own" audio/video Jazz Icons serie...