"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.
When record store owner and compulsive list-compiler Rob Gordon gets dumped by his long-time girlfri...
A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the Afr...
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...
Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.
"I swear, I wanted to make a “visual album” but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time...
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lan...
A trumpet-playing cat and his jazz band invade Ye Olde Squaresville, a kingdom that has outlawed all...
In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rura...
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...
Show Girls celebrates Montreal's swinging Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s, when the cit...
A documentary about the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959). There exist many myths an...
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...
A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.
Early experimental film from Zbigniew Rybczynski that broke new ground in the use of pixelation, opt...
Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.
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Part of BBC Four's Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman,...
In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's "Black Journal" ...
Pop and jazz fusion vocal quartet The Manhattan Transfer is one of the most celebrated a cappella gr...