Jazz Movies

A superb dialogue between two generations at Jazz sous les Pommiers: the great American saxophonist Donny McCaslin collaborates with Ishkero, a young...

This legendary performance by Van Morrison and The Caledonia Soul Orchestra was filmed at The Rainbow in London in July, 1973. Previously unissued,...

A film made in 1970 in the home of Finnish composer Ilkka Kussisto (whose two sons are famous violinists) when the Bill Evans Trio visited him for a...

A Vitaphone musical performance featuring Xavier Cugat and his ensemble.

Pianist Harry Connick, Jr. and saxophonist Branford Marsalis reunite in a magical live performance. Filmed at the 2005 Ottawa Jazz Festival in Canada...

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the...

Considered for an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film (Animated).

Archive performances and interviews explore the influence of the four major jazz albums made in 1959 by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus and...

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...

Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.

A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and...

In 1980, American tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins taught a masterclass at Salle Wagram in Paris to Charles Schneider (tenor saxophone) Marc Thomas...

A live recording of a jazz concert dedicated to the memory of Karel Růžička, who was the teacher of pianist and composer...

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

This concert from the Jazz legend was recorded in 1973 with a very similar line-up to the later releases Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea, featuring...

The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a dilapidated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald's "All My...

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

A documentary featuring archive footage to celebrate the 100th birth of jazz legend Louis Armstrong.