Jazz Movies

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...

In 1960, American dancer and actor Gene Kelly created for the Paris Opera Ballet an original choreography that was highly acclaimed at the time, yet...

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

It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous,...

On March 25, 1965, guitarist Wes Montgomery conducted his quartet at the BBC studios in London to perform on the television show Jazz 625. Already...

A bittersweet musical drama set in London centers around a dejected jazz musician who is on the edge. He perceives a cold, black and white existence....

Jamie Cullum's live concert from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, along with tour footage and interviews taken from his travels in the U.S.,...

Shake Stew's powerful, telluric tunes make you want to sway to the beat, and invite you to let go into a trance-like state. The Austrian band...

Imagine hanging out with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, hearing them jam together, trading riffs, then riffing with words and trading stories....

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...

A pair wander the streets of Warsaw, meeting famous Polish musicians.

A jazz/dance film featuring the Martha Graham Dancers.

Archive performances and interviews explore the influence of the four major jazz albums made in 1959 by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus and...

A film made in 1970 in the home of Finnish composer Ilkka Kussisto (whose two sons are famous violinists) when the Bill Evans Trio visited him for a...

Pink Martini's Discover the World: Live in Concert was released June 2, 2009 worldwide. The feature presentation on the DVD is a performance,...