Jazz Movies

Shake Stew's powerful, telluric tunes make you want to sway to the beat, and invite you to let go into a trance-like state. The Austrian band...

This acclaimed documentary depicts the sad life of the greatest of all jazz singers, Billie Holiday, a life engraved with personal tragedy and...

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

During the summer of 1980, the American jazz concert pianist Kazzrie Jaxen writes a 16 pages long letter to director Ingmar Bergman. His film 'From...

Tenor saxophonist, composer and producer Kamasi Washington and his band perform a special show at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater for the theatre's...

An exploration of the individual components that make up a jazz improvisation, told in 13 parts.

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

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

Harry for the Holidays" is both a traditional and musically adventurous Christmas television special, shot in high definition and originally...

Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary Jazz...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous,...

Dutch singer Caro Emerald burst into the limelight in 2010 when her debut album “Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor” went...

In his five-decade career, the 1950s and 1960s were Frank Sinatra's Golden Age. He was at the top of his game in music, film and television, becoming...

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a...

An amazing interpretation from Vicente Libedinsky of "Festival de Ritmo" originally from Dave weckl in his graduation concert from high school.

Clark Terry has been described as 'possessor of the happiest sound in jazz'. A veteran of Duke Ellington's orchestra, he began to perform as a...

A young student filmmaker in an attempt to shoot a documentary gets lost in New Orleans. Out of fear of making a mistake, he ends up making hundreds...