The Crimson Canary (1945)

Sob a direção do impiedoso professor Terence Fletcher, Andrew Neiman, um jovem e talentoso baterista, procura a perfeição a qualquer custo, mesmo que isso signifique perder a sua humanidade.

No filme online American Pop, O diretor colocou quatro gerações de músicos (cada período no seu contexto histórico e social) enquanto cada um procura a fama com a mudança das eras musicais. Começando no começo do século, depois os movimentos do jazz, a música-popular, os anos 60 e o punk, através dos arranjos de Lee Holdridge, numa produção de Martin Rondshoff – um dos mais famosos produtores independentes de Hollywood.

Um professor de música feroz e intimidador ensina um aluno dedicado. Este é o curta-metragem de 18 minutos em que o longa foi baseado.

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose original, avant-garde work has impacted and influenced people all over the world. A story about music's ability to entertain, inspire and transform.

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

Quando os "eternos" estudantes universitários Danny O'Neill e Hank Taylor são forçados a viver por conta própria, a competitiva dupla consegue emprego temporário com a banda de Artie Shaw. Danny e Hank são surpreendidos quando Artie Shaw contrata a competente gerente Ellen Miller que era lá da sua banda de faculdade. O dois trompetistas tentam esquemas para se enquadrar na banda de Shaw, cada um tentando sabotar a jogada do outro.

Não se deixe enganar pelo título - Droopy parece Droopy, mas ele é realmente o jazzman John Pettibone, com a apresentação do conjunto de pulgas, e o filme mostra como ele surgiu.

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.

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.

Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

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.

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief.

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.

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.

Madrid, Spain, June 30th, 2016. Rafael and José Luis jam a crazy one-day trip in search of the city's jazz scene, meeting the musicians, the club owners, the audience, the true believers who tell the story from the beginning, back in the 1950s, until the last breath of this memorable day.