Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private performances, poetry readings, a band rehearsal, interviews, and extensive improvisations. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored for the best possible viewing experience.
A pair wander the streets of Warsaw, meeting famous Polish musicians.
Miles Davis performing live at Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood Massachusetts on August 18, 1970. ...
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, cele...
At the beginning of the 20th century, a new direction in music appeared in America. Although the wor...
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...
Passing the Torch documents a ninety year old Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, mentoring teenage musicians ...
The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds h...
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
Miles Davis performing live at Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden 27 October 1973 1. Band warming up 2...
In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."
A feature- length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda.
"Comping (an abbreviation of accompanying) is a term used in jazz music to describe the chords, rhyt...
This feature documentary offers a glimpse of contemporary Cuba’s rich musical culture through the ex...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
In this entertaining Puppetoon animated short film, a young boy, Jasper, gets trapped inside a pawns...