Jazz Movies

A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction...

Recorded live at Germeringer Jazztage, 1996 Program: Mi Nino Curro, El Panuelo, Alcazar de Sevilla, Playa del Carmen, Zyryab, Buena Buana King...

Betty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari.

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, and they...

Filmed with an intimate three camera shoot by Antonio Ferrera, a close friend of John Zorn and a long time cameraman for the documentary masters the...

Based in Toronto, experimental combo BadBadNotGood blends seventies soul jazz, futuristic hip-hop and electronica to create a sound as exciting as it...

A split screen jazz and liberation film based on the words of “Un Trip through the Mind Jail” by raúlrsalinas, written in 1969 in...

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, an intimate documentary follows the illustrious pianist and great French jazz musician, Alain Jean-Marie from...

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

To speak of jazz in Turkey is to speak of Kerem Görsev. In this intimate short documentary, director Levent Türkan sits down with the...

In this charming animation, lovingly drawn ink-to-paper over 4 years, a man is driven to insanity by the constant barking of the dog next door. As...

Documentary portrait of composer and saxophone player Eero Koivistoinen (b. 1946).

Amid the Holocaust’s unimaginable cruelty, a young boy finds hope in music. Eighty years later, Frank Grunwald shares his true story of...

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

The recording process of musician Nilufer Akdogu's Turkish jazz album Aristo'ya Inat (Against Aristotle). The film presents the musical searches...

"Sax Maniac: The Life and Times of James Chance" delves into the groundbreaking career of James Siegfried, better known as James Chance or James...

Jutta Hipp defied the odds and made it to the heart of the male-dominated jazz scene in 1950s New York.

A 1975 documentary on the great Blues pianist Earl Hines, one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano.