Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger (1988)
• January 1st, 1988 • 1h 18min
Documentary, Music
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Released on: 2005-01-01
Documentary, Music
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...
Sweet and Lowdown
Released on: 1999-12-03
Comedy, Drama, Music
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
Blues in the Night
Released on: 1941-11-15
Crime, Drama, Music
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...
Bird
Released on: 1988-06-01
Drama, Music
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...
Andrea Motis, The Silent Trumpet
Released on: 2019-04-05
Documentary, Music
This film by director Ramon Tort documents a unique moment in the life and career of Andrea Motis: t...
Kids on the Slope
Released on: 2018-03-10
Drama, Music, Romance
Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...
All Night Long
Released on: 1962-02-06
Drama, Music
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic par...
The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy
Released on: 2022-11-26
Music, Documentary
Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...
American Pop
Released on: 1981-02-13
Animation, Music, Drama, History
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant f...
Let's Get Lost
Released on: 1988-09-15
Music, Documentary
Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of W...
95th Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting
Released on: 2017-11-30
Documentary, Family, Music, History
On November 30, 2017 the National Park Service and National Park Foundation will present the annual ...
Paris Blues
Released on: 1961-09-27
Romance, Drama, Music
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two America...
Swing Girls
Released on: 2004-09-11
Comedy, Music
A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they...
Stop Playing
Released on: 2023-12-11
Drama, Music
A child's imagination clashes with his strict mother.
Young Man with a Horn
Released on: 1950-03-01
Drama, Music, Romance
Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jaz...
Stop for Bud
Released on: 1963-12-17
Documentary, Music
Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] ...
'Round Midnight
Released on: 1986-09-23
Drama, Music
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...
Space Is the Place
Released on: 1974-11-01
Science Fiction, Music
Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himsel...
New York, New York
Released on: 1977-06-21
Romance, Drama, Music
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...