A Little Jive Is Good for You

Sparni

It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist studying at Montclair State University in New Jersey

2023

Whiplash

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

2014

Satie's "Parade"

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie,

2016

Great Artists Steal

Set in 1980s Melbourne, a disgraced jazz pianist attempts to get back into his former band by sabotaging his replacement.

2024

Second Chorus

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exam

1941

American Pop

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing differ

1981

Chasing Trane

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose origina

2017

Standards I/II

2008

Pete Kelly's Blues

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 fo

1955

Jazz Icons: Art Blakey Live in '65

Jazz Icons: Art Blakey boasts an exceptional one-hour concert by Art Blakey from Paris in 1965. This performance showcases one of the few undocumented

2009

The Apartment Above

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

1937

Bring It to the People - the film about the Brussels Jazz Orchestra

2020

Band of Thieves

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 c

1962

Pink Martini Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart

2010

The Crimson Canary

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

1945

The Cry of Jazz

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 mus

1959

Shoe Shine Boy

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

1943

Whiplash

A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student. The short film the 2014 film was based on.

2013

Jordan Jive

Louis Jordan's Orchestra perform Jordan Jive. Setting is a canteen, with the orchestra and audience in US military uniform. The Swing Maniacs go throu

1944

Jam Session

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

1942