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.

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Gr...

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. ...

Between 1981 and 1984 Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahms' orchestral works with the Wie...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

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

‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Li...

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...

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

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at th...

A lizard conductor leads his symphony orchestra when suddenly he encounters a noise that disturbs th...

On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stonecold kil...

Alvin Queen is one of the best jazz drummers of all time. A child prodigy, he played with the great...

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

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

Tenor saxophonist, composer and producer Kamasi Washington and his band perform a special show at Ha...

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

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

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