Jazz Movies

Legendary Brazilian composer and singer Antônio Carlos Jobim delivers a masterful performance at the world famous Montreal Jazz Festival in...

Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar...

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

In 2005 the French progressive rock band Magma presented a series of concerts in which they performed all of their major works of the previous 35...

Folk-jazz composer/arranger Arthur Verocai was born in Rio de Janeiro. He has created challenging arragements and compositions for Brazilian artists...

Saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-1982) lived the kind of jazz life only found in Hollywood movies. His prodigious talent led him to top gigs as a...

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

Steely Dan has not had a new studio album in twenty years--"Two Against Nature" was worth the wait! This concert, recorded live in New York at the...

Filmed with an intimate three camera shoot by Antonio Ferrera, a close friend of John Zorn and a long time cameraman for the documentary masters the...

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...

Amid the Holocaust’s unimaginable cruelty, a young boy finds hope in music. Eighty years later, Frank Grunwald shares his true story of...

While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group The Seekers recall in flashback the origins of...

A jazz cartoon involving a "Fats Waller"-like cat who leaves the "Uncle Tomcat Mission" for the local jazz club. One of the “Censored...

A control-obsessed saxophonist must embrace uncertainty when he learns that a career-defining audition will be assessed on his ability to improvise.

In this Afro-surrealist tale, Coltrane, a gifted saxophonist haunted by trauma, struggles to stay paid and relevant in Harlem’s speakeasy...

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

To speak of jazz in Turkey is to speak of Kerem Görsev. In this intimate short documentary, director Levent Türkan sits down with the...

The emblematic festival Jazz à Vienne welcomes each year more than 200 000 festival-goers and 1000 artists. This documentary retraces the...