Jazz Movies

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds herself falling in love with a woman.

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute...

With his distinctive headwear and inimitable jazz/soul style, Gregory Porter has become an instantly recognisable star on the international scene.

The name Ray Charles stands for superstar worldwide. He is an icon in the music world, has a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame, a bronze...

Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters...

A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to...

A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the...

Hubert Franier, an honest hospital extern, should never had got into trouble had he not been infatuated with Véra, a beautiful but stupid...

Betty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari.

Wild Man Blues is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes...

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

Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the...

The thrilling atmosphere of a concert by legendary jazz trumpeter Laco Déczi. Since entering the professional music scene more than fifty...

Steely Dan, recorded live at the National City Pavilion, in Cincinnati, OH on July 13th, 2008

Miles Davis Septet featuring Keith Jarrett recorded live at Berliner Jazztage, Berlin, November 6, 1971 / Miles Davis – trumpet / Keith...

When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trumpet, loves Jazz and his methods are...

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they...

A number one album and a double Grammy-win in 2023 put jazz vocalist Samara Joy on the map, officially establishing the Bronx native as the next jazz...