"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.

Documentary film about the life and mysterious death of forgotten jazz arranger/composer Gary McFarl...

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

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

All You Can Eat is a brief yet captivating short film that highlights the hungry moments shared betw...

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...

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

Imagine an AM Radio Station with a dawn to dusk license that played nothing but jazz and comedy reco...

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

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lan...

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

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

A chronological look at the life and career of jazz musician, composer, and performer Dave Brubeck (...

‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Li...

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers features what many consider to be one of the fi nest line-ups in th...
The unmistakable voice of the eleven-time Anděl Award winner, first-class musicians, and songs that ...
A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...