A son seeking to fulfill his late father’s dream takes his band from the storied city of New Orleans to the shores of Cuba, where — through the universal language of music — dark and ancient connections between their peoples reveal the roots of jazz.

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind...

On October 17, 1996, veteran and contemporary jazz greats gathered for a select soiree on the stage ...

A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.

Guitarist Al di Meola, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, and bassist Stanley Clarke, all of whom recorded nu...

A rising nineteen-year-old singer by the name of Billie Holiday made her screen debut in this musica...

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out ...
Thelonious Monk entered a long phase of introspection and cancelled his concert schedule after 1968....

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the t...
After 46 years in exile, former major league baseball star Luis Tiant returns to Cuba, where he enco...

Herbie is a short 16mm black and white film by George Lucas and Paul Golding made in 1966 as part of...

A trumpet-playing cat and his jazz band invade Ye Olde Squaresville, a kingdom that has outlawed all...

In 1979 and 1980, three world renowned guitarists, John Mc Laughlin, Paco De Lucia and Larry Coryell...

The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to...

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection a...
Musical performers put on a show in a pawn shop to convince a man to give them the money they need t...

In the early twentieth century, the Hotel Nueva Isla was an emblematic luxury hotel. After the Cuban...

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
In this entertaining Puppetoon animated short film, a young boy, Jasper, gets trapped inside a pawns...