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...

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...

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

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...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

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...

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

An unprecedented collection by Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti, Live At The Shrine includes both a concert...

Clark Terry has been described as 'possessor of the happiest sound in jazz'. A veteran of Duke Ellin...

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

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

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

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
August, 1961: in an East Berlin jazz club, dissident Andreas, released from jail, awaits reunion wit...

A musician tries to get by working several jobs.

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

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenór...

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