Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play in the festival that will send him to the top amongst the jazz greats. With just 50 minutes standing between him and his consecration, as he runs over his last simple question more to pass time than anything else. Danny tries to answer, but instead finds himself projected into another world, one populated by the sensual and very real ghosts of his past...

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

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...

In the wake of his father’s suicide, young record collector Ollie Sway returns to the family lake ho...

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...

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

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

A bittersweet musical drama set in London centers around a dejected jazz musician who is on the edge...
On November 30, 2017 the National Park Service and National Park Foundation will present the annual ...

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...

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

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

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who ne...

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San...

In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles u...