Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short.

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading ...

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

Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team u...

Mel Tormé and the Mel-Tones sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie (a short film produced to be pl...

The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At th...

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, whi...

Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pi...

Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a...

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in w...

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wondermen...

It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist st...

When two buskers find themselves situated on the same busy street corner, a musical battle ensues wh...

Count Basie does a little rhyming rapping before going into this Benny Goodman instrumental composit...

Alan Ladd was discovered by Sue Carol for his incredible voice in radio. And then she married him. I...

Helen Huntley and Stan Kenton and His Orchestra perform "Jammin' in the Panoram."