Jazz Movies

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.

A short narrative drama that explores the personal and professional dilemmas faced by the openly gay jazz composer, Billy Strayhorn, in the early...

Be it the musical expression of Dave Holland, the melodic phrasing of Scott LaFaro, the inventiveness of Charles Mingus or the flawless technique and...

CMC’s visionary leaders and artists to celebrate one of San Francisco’s most-revered and longest-running community arts programs.

A web documentary that explores Montreal’s incredible contribution to jazz music history through the legendary black musicians of Little...

Renowned journalist and jazz critic Nat Hentoff tells the story of his longtime colleague, pioneering TV writer/director/producer, Robert Herridge....

German cultural documentary about the development of Jazz in New Orleans. Contains interviews with several musicians.

Did you look at the sun for too long, until the shapes of the surrounding world stretched and the colors became distorted? In this music documentary,...

The young American Pablo Menéndez came to Cuba to study Music at the National School of Art. Here he formed a family and became one more...

Coloratura is cartoon based on the minimal style of the UPA animation, combining art, animation and jazz to create a symphony as the main character...

The bold and ferocious harmonic imagination of John Coltrane is laid bare in this concert, captured at the Comblain-La-Tour Festival in Belgium,...

A documentary about a life dedicated to jazz, as told by Velibor Pedevski, who has been living among a dynamic New York crowd for over a quarter of a...

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau...

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers features what many consider to be one of the fi nest line-ups in the history of jazz—Bobby Timmons...

World première recording of Hannibal Lokumbe's 'spritatorio' Can You Hear God Crying, which combines jazz, gospel and chamber music with West...

The film follows the quartet from collaborative development of new music to a live performance at New York’s 55 Bar.

Short documentary film that captures the spirit of a new generation of Latvian jazz musicians shaping the contemporary sound of Latvia. With a poetic...

Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the...

When the clock runs out on an impossible debt, a drummer choses to face the music head on.