"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.

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

What was supposed to be a 40 minute performance gets extended another 20 minutes with 3 more songs t...
The musical traditions of the eastern and western worlds are bridged through the improvisations of B...

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

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

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand w...

Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play ...

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with...

Few jazz musicians are as exuberant at their advanced age as Stéphane Grappelli in this concert. In ...

After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious pa...

Soul diva Diana Ross shines in this 1992 concert filmed at New York's Ritz Theatre. Ross shared the ...

High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picki...

Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some ...

A bittersweet musical drama set in London centers around a dejected jazz musician who is on the edge...

Jazz Icons: Bill Evans features five separate performances by one of the most revered pianists in mu...

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

An exploration of the individual components that make up a jazz improvisation, told in 13 parts.