Birth of Jazz

Impressive early music synchronization with fevered visuals, 1930s-cartoony to the point of being camp. Classical themes: "Moonlight Sonata", "Poet and Peasant Overture". Popular themes: "Down Home Rag", "St. Louis Blues

Do You Believe in Jazz?

Jazz Club 2

The Cry of Jazz

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A land

Backstage Jazz Mystery

In this experimental film, shot in glistening black and white, a young saxophonist attends a school graduation celebration in St. Petersberg. Different versions of the same events unfurl as reality, illusion, dream and m

Notes for a Film on Jazz

Documentary filmed during the 1965 International Jazz Festival in Bologna, featuring appearances by musicians such as Gato Barbieri, Don Cherry, and Mal Waldron.

Miles Davis - Montreux Jazz Festival

Miles Davis – Montreux Jazz Festival (1989) captures the legendary trumpeter's electric-era performance at the Casino de Montreux on July 21, 1989, as part of the annual Montreux Jazz Festival. The set brought together a

Moor Mother: Jazz Codes

Poet, musician, visual artist, and Afrofuturist Moor Mother roams a hallucinatory Mojave Desert alone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Moor Mother visits the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra HQ and plays with jazz luminaries and

Jazz Is Our Religion

An evocation of jazz through photographs, words and music. Music by Johnny Griffin Quintet with Jon Hendricks and the voices of Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke, Jo Jones, Sonny Murray, Eddie Gomez, Bill Evans. Jazz poems by Lan

The Jazz Funeral

Love is like a funeral – funny, tragic, and something we all must live with.

Hania Rani @ Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2023

Hania Rani has a gift in creating moments of intimate communion with her audience using only her fingertips, one reason why this Polish pianist is seeing her star rise in the neoclassical world. Her liberated, graceful p

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Jazz in Marciac

Rogê @ Jazz sous les Pommiers 2025

All the sensitivity and elegance of Rogê is on show at Jazz sous les Pommiers. This Carioca artist promises to lull the Normandy festival with Curyman II, an album that revisits a whole era of Brazilian music.

Jazz+Az – Koncert + Story

Zuza Homem de Jazz

What is the influence of Jazz on Brazilian music and the influence of Brazilian music on Jazz? The documentary Zuza Homem de Jazz draws a parallel between the two universes, featuring the renowned Brazilian musicologist

Small LAND JAZZ

While out for a walk, I came across a peaked roof and decided to try moving it like an umbrella. Using the roof as the starting point, I decided on the theme of the work as "buildings," and combined elements other than t

Santana - Montreux Jazz Festival 2015

Track list: 01. Woodstock Intro 02. Soul Sacrifice 03. Saideira 04. Love Makes the World Go 'Round 05. Freedom in Your Mind 06. Foo Foo 07. Corazón espinado 08. Jin-go-lo-ba 09. Evil Ways 10. A Love Supreme (with John Mc

Jazz at the White House

This All-Star Global Concert at the White House features performances by Joey Alexander, Terence Blanchard, Kris Bowers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lyne Carrington, Chick Corea, Jamie Cullum, Kurt Elling, Aretha Franklin

Marcus Miller @ TSF Jazz Chantilly Festival 2025

The celebrated New York bassist Marcus Miller, steeped in jazz and soul, delivers a generous performance for the TSF Jazz Chantilly Festival audience.

Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention in '69, Frank Zappa unleashed a second incarnation of the band by '70. This film focuses on the sophomore Mothers and this often-overlooked period in Zappa's career. Fea