Jazz Movies

Considered for an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film (Animated).

A pair wander the streets of Warsaw, meeting famous Polish musicians.

Kansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird” Parker spent in Kansas City and his lasting...

Poetic short documentary about jazz pianist Roger Kosa

Imagine an AM Radio Station with a dawn to dusk license that played nothing but jazz and comedy records. Did I mention it FLOATED in the Ohio River...

Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.

Documentary about the Chicago jazz scene.

This Emmy-nominated TV special highlights rare performance footage filmed between 1968 and 1969 at various US venues and locations, including the...

An insight into how one feels upon a late night return home.

It Ain't Necessarily So captures a budding Japanese jazz singer and her biracial vocal instructor who struggle to agree on the proper way to sing...

An evil spider kidnaps a housefly from a cabaret and takes her to his secret lab.

Documentary about the work of the musician and composer Toninho Horta, master of harmonies and instrumentalist whose recognition crosses the borders...

Tirza Hightower is a jet setting executive ready to shake things up and lay low for awhile. Kam Mercer, a corporate brand strategist by day, is an...

Duke Ellington's fifty year career was full of accomplishments as a highly original pianist, arranger, prolific composer and leader of a timeless...

Early experimental film from Zbigniew Rybczynski that broke new ground in the use of pixelation, optical printing, animation and other compositional...