Movies: Jazz

An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab....

The prophetic jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who today is seen as one of the most important innovators in jazz, was obsessed with his radical music and by the thought that people one day would understand it. In 1962 he recorded his first album in Swe...

After charging through "One More Time," "Wild West," and "You Can't Get What You Want (Until You Know What You Want)" at a punishing clip, one might expect the soft-spoken Joe Jackson to shift to a lower gear. Instead, the one-time musical prodigy, p...

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On his 30th birthday, a man receives a strange gift from his childhood......

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

Emmet Cohen w/ Bruce Harris & Patrick Bartley...

In 1932 Harlem, aspiring jazz trumpeter Ethel Franklin struggles to get her foot in the door. Dejected after another fruitless night, an opportunity arises to prove herself as the greatest. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Ethel goes agai...

Double bassist, singer, composer and arranger Avishai Cohen is renowned for his virtuoso playing and emotional live performances. And he's unrivalled at finding the musicians who have the potential to take over from the jazz greats....

CMC’s visionary leaders and artists to celebrate one of San Francisco’s most-revered and longest-running community arts programs....

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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 Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy.” Humor is no stranger to jazz singers Eiko Katayama and Kazue Hiraoka who...

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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 of names and apartments leads to amusing complications as the young tenant falls in love with a young ...

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Reissue of Standards Trio concerts; originally released separately as Live at Open Theater East and Trio Concert 1996...