Jazz Movies

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

The Square Live at the Cat Club 1988

The iconic concert from T-SQUARE in 1998.

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau...

Medeski Martin and Wood at Leverkusener Jazztage - Germany 12 November 2013 Tracklist: - 1969 - Seven Days - Black Elk Speaks - Amber Girls -...

The Sonny Sharrock Band live in Prague as part of the Knitting Factory Festival Tour of Europe 1990.

Amid the frenetic pace of New York City, a group of young musicians confronts the paradox of pursuing a professional career in the world of jazz...

Documentary portrait of composer and saxophone player Eero Koivistoinen (b. 1946).

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer.

Inada plays Betty Yoshida, a singer and dancer from America who arrives in Japan to go on tour, only to be swindled by scheming managers. Penniless...

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

"Surp." is an animated short in which we follow a man watching TV with his trees.

During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The...

A Song For My Father is a six-minute poetic documentary that examines grief and the complicated relationship we develop with the things that once...

A man stumbles upon a saxophone.

A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.

Recorded Live on July 18th, 1986 at "Montreux Casino", during the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland)

A lonely musician living trough his music and the daily visits of a cat. One day the nostalgia takes over; he gets a crazy idea.