Jazz Movies

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

A short narrative drama that explores the personal and professional dilemmas faced by the openly gay jazz composer, Billy Strayhorn, in the early 1940...

Two men’s quest for sustenance.

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

In 1999, on the occasion of the centenary of Ellington's birth, Franco Maresco commissioned Steve Lacy to perform ten songs by the Duke, which were re...

A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee Germany...

A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.

Going To California is a concert performance video by the British pop group Tears For Fears. Released in 1990, it is a recording of the band's show at...

While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group The Seekers recall in flashback the origins of the...

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His death will be...

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

A lonely musician living trough his music and the daily visits of a cat. One day the nostalgia takes over; he gets a crazy idea.

A documentary about the life and music of Justin Pearson. An enigmatic underground musician and owner of Three One G records.

Buster Williams Quartet featuring Patrice Rushen Live At Blue Note, Milan March 6, 2012. Buster Williams - bass Mark Gross - Sax Alto & Soprano...

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

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

A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.

A biographical film featuring the music and times of Bill Evans with interviews from Tony Bennett, Jack Dejohnette, Billy Taylor, Paul Motian, Jon Hen...

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 aro...