Ella Fitzgerald Swings

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love...

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...

After a divorce with her childhood friend, arrogant socialite Tracy Lord is remarrying but her ex-hu...

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who...

A tribute to Charles Mingus.

It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist st...

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...

Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity...

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner...

The concert captured on William "Count" Basie's entry in the "must-own" audio/video Jazz Icons serie...

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist,...

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-to...

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, preten...

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

Artie Shaw and his orchestra perform four popular songs, "Alone Together", "Jeepers Creepers", "Deep...

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious hi...

A jazz musician struggles to come to terms with his age when he is assigned a live in nurse.

Common sense says you can't make a living in America playing avant-garde improvisational jazz. But K...

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted...