Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".

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

‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Li...

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who ...

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

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

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

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter...

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

Chart-topping jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and special guests performed two star-studded concerts at t...

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...

Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity...

An intimate look into the life of icon Quincy Jones. A unique force in music and popular culture for...

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy unt...

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gan...

In a retirement home for former professional musicians, a newcomer convinces some of his mates to em...

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at th...

In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's "Black Journal" ...
22-year-old Miles Davis embarks on a transformative trip to Paris in 1949, where he falls into a pas...

A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.