Jazz Movies

Mammy steps out for the evening. While she's away, the cats - in this case Tom and three of his alley cat friends - play. Play and perform rollicking...

A musician tries to get by working several jobs.

Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but...

Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute...

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...

A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.

In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's "Black Journal" television program—legendary jazz...

Explore the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative boundaries in...

Beatnik mice are chased by a square cat.

Eric Clapton: Live at Budokan

Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters...

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label...

Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. ...

Going To California is a concert performance video by the British pop group Tears For Fears. Released in 1990, it is a recording of the band's show...

Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, Kasper Collin’s new documentary employs extensive archival footage and new interviews to tell the...

Two men’s quest for sustenance.

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by means of alcohol, drugs and sex. A story by...

A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.