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...

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".

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

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

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

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

In 1984, a fashionable young woman spontaneously lectures her friend about good oral hygiene. Produ...

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

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

Big Band leader and 1930s Broadway starlet Gracie Barrie sings a lovely little ditty about a wife’s ...

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

Containing a vibrant concert by the Miles Davis Band featuring Keith Jarrett.

A fiery, lithe dancer is stripping in a cage on a jungle set, scored to intense crime jazz.

The King Cole Trio and Ida James perform the title song in this Soundie.

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

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

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra perform "This Love of Mine" with Cyd Charisse and other dancers