This is the full ten minute film from which the Russ Morgan "Meet The Bandleaders" segment was created on video in the 1980s. It features Russ in his first year, singer Linda Lee, and Lewis Julian, a former NBC page boy. Also featured is 22-year-old Billy Fisher on saxophone and clarinet (in front of the bass drum), who later played with Al Donahue and the CBS Orchestra. He was later the arranger for the Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason shows and the Tony Awards.
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...
Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.
ZAZ, in August 2014, completed a major tour spanning 5 continents, performing sold out each time. “O...
A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the Afr...
A trumpet-playing cat and his jazz band invade Ye Olde Squaresville, a kingdom that has outlawed all...
A documentary about the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959). There exist many myths an...
Early experimental film from Zbigniew Rybczynski that broke new ground in the use of pixelation, opt...
In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rura...
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...
The last few months have been very intense for Jamiroquai, since the announcement of the new album, ...
A jazz musician struggles to come to terms with his age when he is assigned a live in nurse.
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...
A tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, with Nina Simone, Mile...