Jazz Movies

Two young, inexperienced students, dissatisfied with the demands of their teachers and the mentoring of their parents, try to cross illegally into...

Saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-1982) lived the kind of jazz life only found in Hollywood movies. His prodigious talent led him to top gigs as a...

Folk-jazz composer/arranger Arthur Verocai was born in Rio de Janeiro. He has created challenging arragements and compositions for Brazilian artists...

Forgotten by all, an elderly jazz singer lives through the fragments of her past. Inspired by the true story of Giuli Chokheli, the most famous...

San Francisco's North Beach in the 50's - A mix of jazz, poetry and art - The Beach recreates the atmosphere that prevailed through first-hand...

An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.

Musicians and nightclub owners reminisce about the heyday of music and dance places on Chicago's South Side during the 1930s through '50s. Swingers...

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....

A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and...

Three female performers – pianist Renara, tap-dancer Irene Cutter and singer Shirley Lenner – are supported by Harry Parry and his band...

The Hot Club of Montevideo is a Uruguayan cultural institution founded in 1950 by the pianist Paco Mañosa, along with his brother and some...

In 1980, American tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins taught a masterclass at Salle Wagram in Paris to Charles Schneider (tenor saxophone) Marc Thomas...

Traces the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present.

Jaco Pastorius Trilogue with Albert Mangelsdorff and Alphonse Mouzon. Recorded live at the Berlin Jazz Days, 6 November 1976 at the Berlin...

A superb dialogue between two generations at Jazz sous les Pommiers: the great American saxophonist Donny McCaslin collaborates with Ishkero, a young...

Documentary about the Chicago jazz scene.

The Sonny Sharrock Band live in Prague as part of the Knitting Factory Festival Tour of Europe 1990.

The recording process of musician Nilufer Akdogu's Turkish jazz album Aristo'ya Inat (Against Aristotle). The film presents the musical searches...

A jazzy riff on 'Fantasia' from the creator of Gumby.