Jazz Movies

A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.

60 Berlin community members — including children, teenagers and adults, professional and amateur artists from various disciplines —...

In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor...

As seen and heard by... the Standing on the corner art ensemble, an "Exhibition" Index Film

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

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

Tarik Shah, supremely talented Muslim American jazz bassist, endured 15 years of unjust imprisonment. Shah toured with jazz legend Betty Carter and...

John Zorn: alto sax, vocals Bill Frisell: guitar Wayne Horvitz: keyboards, piano Fred Frith: bass Joey Baron: drums

A split screen jazz and liberation film based on the words of “Un Trip through the Mind Jail” by raúlrsalinas, written in 1969 in...

After charging through "One More Time," "Wild West," and "You Can't Get What You Want (Until You Know What You Want)" at a punishing clip, one might...

In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rural home to the big city, where a dancing girl in a...

A tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, with Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Etta James, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie,...

Oswald the Rabbit puts on a concert for a group of barn animals - but when they discover that he's miming to a record of his idol, Paul Whiteman -...

Documentary portrait of composer and saxophone player Eero Koivistoinen (b. 1946).

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate...

Legendary Brazilian composer and singer Antônio Carlos Jobim delivers a masterful performance at the world famous Montreal Jazz Festival in...

This concert from the Jazz legend was recorded in 1973 with a very similar line-up to the later releases Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea, featuring...

A documentary about the legendary Jazz player Charlie (Bird) Parker.

Harry Connick, Jr. has redefined the art of jazz piano and vocals. His repertoire ranges from stylish and witty interpretations of jazz standards to...