Jazz Movies

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

The recording of a concert by the Martinů Voices vocal choir, conducted by Lukáš Vasilek, at St. Wenceslas Church in Opava...

A woman suffering from dementia relives her traumatic past

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

The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band during its sunset years: 87-year-old Al Casey, who had worked closely with Fats Waller throughout the 1930s; guitarist...

On the eve of graduation, a high school student finds herself dealing with both college applications and an unfaithful boyfriend.

Imagine an AM Radio Station with a dawn to dusk license that played nothing but jazz and comedy records. Did I mention it FLOATED in the Ohio River...

“The Language of the Unknown” accompanies the great saxophonist and his band with a concert on November 3, 2012 in the Salle Pleyel in...

This legendary performance by Van Morrison and The Caledonia Soul Orchestra was filmed at The Rainbow in London in July, 1973. Previously unissued,...

Elijah Jamal Balbed grew up in Washington DC in the midst of one of its most difficult eras, as its identity was being tested. As the city changed...

In this second short film in the Birdland series two birds escape and fly away to the rainbow. The story is set to the sound of "Over the Rainbow"...

An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of...

American Robben Ford started out playing jazz saxophone because he admired Paul Desmond. But he soon swapped this instrument for an electric guitar....

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

A concert film by Frank Heath, documenting Miles Okazaki’s solo guitar performance of the complete works of Thelonious Monk from memory in a...

During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The...

Boring Days are supposed to be awesome, but Mr.Boring is having a "boring" Boring Day.

A documentary film about the creative life of Aram Vardani. His music becomes the language of the city, where sounds replace words and rhythms...

Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nellie Bly and kills him in a fit of jealousy.