jazz

This episode focuses on Zappa’s early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (‘) (1974). Together they encapsulate ...

A documentary about the weeks leading up to the early death of jazz legend Eric Dolphy. Centered around his last month alive and the titular ...

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland’s polemical essay on the ...

A son seeking to fulfill his late father’s dream takes his band from the storied city of New Orleans to the shores of Cuba, where – ...

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer. ...

Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely ...

A homage to Bruce Weber’s Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz ...

Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, ...

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life. Release: Street Girl 1929 General: mkv ...

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.. ...

Inside Out In The Open is an hour-long documentary about a form of jazz, popularly known as free jazz. The film is an exploration of that music ...

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 ...

An ordinary man, who goes against all odds to forge his own destiny and become a star in the glittering sky of ‘Bombay,’ thriving on ...

A visionary, innovator, and originator who defied categorization and embodied the word cool-a foray into the life and career of musical and ...

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools ...

The story of Frankie and Johnny: Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nelly Bly and kills him in a ...

“It must schwing!” was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, ...

Two different students-a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent-form a friendship through their love of jazz ...

The film explores the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative ...

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