Jazz Movies

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

Robert Glasper Experiment — Live Performance on Morning Becomes Eclectic at KCRW Radio. Full set and interview.

Traces the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers features what many consider to be one of the fi nest line-ups in the history of jazz—Bobby Timmons...

An experimental staged documentary.

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.

A monumental homage to Glenn Miller, a one shot film - Glenn Miller 2000. This 26- minute long piece, shot on a circular road in Novi Zagreb in many...

The film follows the quartet from collaborative development of new music to a live performance at New York’s 55 Bar.

A feature-length tour of Amsterdam's thriving jazz scene.

In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year. Webster, who was born in Kansas...

Tracklist DVD: 1. Love For Sale (instr.) 2. Come Fly With Me 3. Luck Be A Lady 4. Pennies From Heaven 5. Witchcraft 6. It Had To Be You 7. The...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

Two friends play a best-of-three game of pool, but things go rough quickly. As their shots get more powerful, they miss more often and only sheer...

The Frisbee is an animated short featuring a dog and a frisbee which may or may not belong to the dog. The director was contacted for a comment, and...

From the mid-fifties to his death in the early nineties, Miles Davis was universally recognized as one of the most innovative musicians working in...

Poetic short documentary about jazz pianist Roger Kosa

Weather Report live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany, November 6, 1975. Program: Freezing Fire - Scarlet Woman - Mysterious Traveller -...

John Zorn: alto sax, vocals Bill Frisell: guitar Wayne Horvitz: keyboards, piano Fred Frith: bass Joey Baron: drums