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...

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

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

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

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

The hits come fast and furious in this 2001 performance by Antoine "Fats" Domino at the Jazz and Her...

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

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

Emma, a talented conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene, has a complicated relationship wit...

A musician tries to get by working several jobs.

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

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

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable t...

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in ja...

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

Few jazz musicians are as exuberant at their advanced age as Stéphane Grappelli in this concert. In ...

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

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

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

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