A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and a surprising new generation of musicians and dancers.

Recorded Live at Tokyo International Forum Hall A on December 9th, 2007

In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty yea...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play ...

Ella Fitzgerald visited Australia back in 1960. Gracefully stepping up to the microphone for the cel...

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

Join drummer Martin Atkins and his industrial rock band Pigface for this document of their epic 2005...

A documentary featuring archive footage to celebrate the 100th birth of jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker n...

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

Elijah Jamal Balbed grew up in Washington DC in the midst of one of its most difficult eras, as its ...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

Zawinul is onstage with the WDR Big Band from Germany and a special international rhythm section. Th...