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...

Inada plays Betty Yoshida, a singer and dancer from America who arrives in Japan to go on tour, only...

Kansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird” Parker...

Reissue of Standards Trio concerts; originally released separately as Live at Open Theater East and ...

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

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

Tenor saxophonist Jimmy McGary was a major presence in the Cincinnati music scene from the 1950s unt...

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...

This Emmy-nominated TV special highlights rare performance footage filmed between 1968 and 1969 at v...

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

Zawinul is onstage with the WDR Big Band from Germany and a special international rhythm section. Th...

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

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

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...

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

A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils in...

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

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