Jazz Movies

Pianist Harry Connick, Jr. and saxophonist Branford Marsalis reunite in a magical live performance. Filmed at the 2005 Ottawa Jazz Festival in Canada...

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

This Emmy-nominated TV special highlights rare performance footage filmed between 1968 and 1969 at various US venues and locations, including the...

Central Avenue thrived as a Black entertainment metropolis of Los Angeles during the 1920s through the mid-1950s. While it is often assumed that...

A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and...

New York City's various bridges transform into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape (electro-acoustic version).

This concert from the Jazz legend was recorded in 1973 with a very similar line-up to the later releases Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea, featuring...

Poetic short documentary about jazz pianist Roger Kosa

A documentary about the jazz standard and it's roots in Jewish and African-American culture/

One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Dizzy Gillespie dazzled the world with his talent as one of the pioneers of be-bop and Latin jazz,...

The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a dilapidated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald's "All My...

A young radio announcer living in Warsaw, who also is a swing and jazz musician, continually feuds with his landlord, a classical musician. A mixup...

A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate...

It Ain't Necessarily So captures a budding Japanese jazz singer and her biracial vocal instructor who struggle to agree on the proper way to sing...

Biographical documentary on the life and career of Dexter Gordon.

The two musical masters swing out.

Jaco Pastorius Trilogue with Albert Mangelsdorff and Alphonse Mouzon. Recorded live at the Berlin Jazz Days, 6 November 1976 at the Berlin...