A Little Jive Is Good for You (1941)
Género : Música
Tiempo de ejecución : 3M
Director : Josef Berne
Sinopsis
Martha Tilton sings in this Soundies film from 1941, with Slate Brothers, and Ben Pollack and His Orchestra accompanying.
El objetivo de Andrew Neiman, un joven y ambicioso baterista de jazz, es triunfar en el elitista Conservatorio de Música de la Costa Este en el que estudia. Marcado por el fracaso de la carrera literaria de su padre, Andrew alberga sueños de grandeza. Terence Fletcher, un profesor conocido tanto por su talento como por sus rigurosos métodos de enseñanza, dirige el mejor conjunto de jazz del Conservatorio. Cuando Fletcher elige a Andrew y para formar parte del conjunto musical que dirige, cambia para siempre la vida del joven. La pasión de Andrew por alcanzar la perfección se convierte en obsesión, al tiempo que su despiadado profesor lo lleva al límite de su capacidad y de su salud mental.
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Un batería con mucha ambición entra a formar parte de la orquesta de jazz de un conservatorio de élite. Cortometraje ganador en Sundance que sirvió para que Damien Chazelle consiguiera financiación para la realización del largometraje 'Whiplash' (2014).
Un relato de la vida del genial músico de jazz John Coltrane (1926-67), un saxofonista dotado, un pensador de talento extraordinario cuya obra, original y vanguardista, ha impactado e influido a personas de todo el mundo. Una historia sobre la capacidad que tiene la música para entretener, inspirar y transformar.
Pete Kelly es un trompetista que toca con su banda de jazz, conocida como "Pete Kelly y sus Big Seven", en un local de Kansas City. Un día aparece por allí Frank McCarg, un mafioso que le exige ser su manager a cambio del 25% de las ganancias y de que su novia Rose cante en el grupo. Tras negarse, Frank asesina a uno de los amigos de Pete, por lo que esté decidirá aceptar sus condiciones, esperando tener en el futuro la oportunidad de vengarse de él...
Danny y Hank son dos estudiantes de trompeta que han estado siete años estudiando y tocando juntos en la banda de la universidad. Los dos compiten en el trabajo y en el amor para conseguir los favores de su mánager, la bella Ellen Miller.
La joven bonita provoca una rivalidad amorosa que desemboca en los habituales corridas, choques, etc...
John Pettibone (Droopy), a dog whose love of Dixieland music is not appreciated by those around him, has a lucky meeting with Pee-Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland band at the circus.
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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 music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.
Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of the older man arrives for a visit and gets into the wrong apartment. Complications arise.
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school.
A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and clarinets are just a cover for a series of robberies. Musical comedy, starring British jazz star Acker Bilk as himself, alongside Jimmy Thompson and Jennifer Jayne.
Little kids, big dreams and smashingly good music – Dixieland follows the amazing progress of four members of a Ukrainian children’s brass band from Kherson. Through steady practice under the wildest of conditions, Roman (12, trumpet), Polina (10, trombone, drums and many other instruments), Nikita (12, drums) and Nikita (14, piano) produce magical music with ancient, wobbly instruments. Not least due to their wit and good humor, they persevere together, helped along by their 80+-year-old conductor and a young teacher. These children of the post-Soviet provinces use American tunes to achieve their dream – to become someone in the world and make something of their lives, no matter how dire the circumstances. From the authors of an awards winning documentary film Ukrainian Sheriffs.
Inspirado en la pieza musical "Parade" compuesto por Erik Satie esta recreación animada parte de las imágenes realistas del ballet y viaja más allá de la realidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.
