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...

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...

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

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

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

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

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...

BBC archivists recently unearthed a veritable treasure trove of Ella Fitzgerald shows recorded by th...

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker n...

Acclaimed jazz vocalist Jane Monheit -- an artist whose voice is often compared to that of Diana Kra...

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

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...

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

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

A musician tries to get by working several jobs.

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] ...

Recorded Live at Tokyo International Forum Hall A on December 9th, 2007

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

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

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by...