Alvin Queen is one of the best jazz drummers of all time. A child prodigy, he played with the greatest masters (Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Pharaoh Sanders... ) He is also a very nice person who has a lot of wisdom to transmit. He shows it beautifully in this first episode of "Seeds of Success".
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two America...
"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who ...
Dizzy Gillespie is one of the major figures of the 20th Century's music scene. Everything was once s...
Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] ...
Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, preten...
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with...
This legendary performance by Van Morrison and The Caledonia Soul Orchestra was filmed at The Rainbo...
The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds h...
Miles Davis performing live at Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood Massachusetts on August 18, 1970. ...
The story of four-time World Champion Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán. A one man wrecking-ball who to...
Two musical stars from the golden age of Hollywood get a second chance at rekindling their love in t...
A 1975 documentary on the great Blues pianist Earl Hines, one of the most influential figures in the...
A documentary profiling a Japanese taiko drumming group based in the remote Sado Island, Japan. The ...
In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...
A documentary on Dizzy Gillespie's landmark visit to Cuba and his performance at the Fifth Internati...
"Comping (an abbreviation of accompanying) is a term used in jazz music to describe the chords, rhyt...
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...