"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...

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic par...

A documentary about a life dedicated to jazz, as told by Velibor Pedevski, who has been living among...

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of W...

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An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...

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

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Oscar Peterson is accompanied by the stellar duo of bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen for eac...

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

In Germany, jazz had a voice: Inge Brandenburg. This is the story of a woman in the 1950s and 1960s,...

The concert held at the ZDF JazzClub in Stuttgart in 1988 was played by Oscar Peterson together with...

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant f...

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

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This riveting music documentary traces the history of Jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson, from his ear...

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