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Starting in 1946, The Modern Jazz Quartet has existed as a great, but perhaps obscure group compared to luminaries such as Duke Ellington (with whom they once worked with), Cab Calloway, Oscar Peterson, and Miles Davis,
The director Vít Klusák is shooting a film about his father, the well-known composer Emil Viklický, but the latter wants nothing to do with it. This creates a portrait without portraiture, since the director places a dou
Damon Albarns 2014 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival with his Everyday Robots project.
Shot on location in New York City and starring an ensemble cast of New York City Ballet dancers, NY Export: Opus Jazz takes Jerome Robbins‘ 1958 “ballet in sneakers” and reimagines it for a new generation in this scripte
Wyclef Jean - Montreux Jazz Festival 2013
Roland Kirk's instrumental arsenal included saxophone, flute, manzello, stritch, clarinet, siren and whistles - often times simultaneously! This DVD presents three astounding oncerts by this musical superhero. Kirk is ba
Young lawyer Dick Gregory, is hard pressed to pay the bills of his wife, Gloria, and equally hard pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life. Edward Martindel, an attorney who represents a corporation against w
Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film
Miles Davis – Montreux Jazz Festival (1989) captures the legendary trumpeter's electric-era performance at the Casino de Montreux on July 21, 1989, as part of the annual Montreux Jazz Festival. The set brought together a
Visiting musician Antonio (aka Anton), inseparable from his trumpet, drops in for a few hours in the city of his childhood, where his friends, partners in inspired boyish outrages, are slowly going crazy from the daily r
The Sala Clamores Jazz Madrid is a club that keeps good music alive beyond temporary fashions, those imposed by an era: this is its success, its meaning, its resistance. And this in-depth look is the proof. These unique
Drummer Shun Ishiwaka's SP Band reunites. Grammy Award-winning pianist Robert Glasper, Aina the End, Yasuyuki Okamura, KID FRESINO, Ringo Sheena, and Kaho Nakamura will perform together!
Woody Herman features a blistering one-hour concert from 1964 showcasing one of the very hottest line-ups of the “Swinging Herd,” including trumpeter Bill Chase, trombonist Phil Wilson and the amazing saxophonist Sal Nis
"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 that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hanc
Short film by Michael Maynard