Jazz Movies

Live archive release from the Jazz legend. Thelonious Monk Paris 1969 is a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary Jazz...

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker Tony Williams. Based around a painter and a...

In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rural home to the big city, where a dancing girl in a...

Passing the Torch documents a ninety year old Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, mentoring teenage musicians with a thirst for knowledge and an appreciation...

The young American Pablo Menéndez came to Cuba to study Music at the National School of Art. Here he formed a family and became one more...

Central Avenue thrived as a Black entertainment metropolis of Los Angeles during the 1920s through the mid-1950s. While it is often assumed that...

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

New York City’s bridges dissolve into shifting abstractions through montage, superimposition, and color. Set to an electronic score by Louis...

A musical show by a spirited Cuban band as part of the Las Noches del Monumental series on Spanish television... The Cuban Michael Olivera is closely...

Boring Days are supposed to be awesome, but Mr.Boring is having a "boring" Boring Day.

Oswald the Rabbit puts on a concert for a group of barn animals - but when they discover that he's miming to a record of his idol, Paul Whiteman -...

The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band during its sunset years: 87-year-old Al Casey, who had worked closely with Fats Waller throughout the 1930s; guitarist...

The musical traditions of the eastern and western worlds are bridged through the improvisations of Bombay, India-born percussionist/vocalist Trilok...

Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the...

A 1975 documentary on the great Blues pianist Earl Hines, one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano.