"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.

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they...

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During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two America...

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With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter...

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...

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

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

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Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...

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