Ella Fitzgerald Swings

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

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

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

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

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

An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trum...

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

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...

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.

A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help when the other tenants throw a...

In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's "Black Journal"...

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

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

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

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...

A tribute to Charles Mingus.

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of W...