Jazz Movies

When young musicians come together to play classical music, they send out a strong signal to our today’s world. The film follows talented young...

In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor...

Martin, a nu-jazz trumpet player with a unique style, is fighting against convention and mediocrity. He will not accept any compromise, neither in...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern...

The mice are on the loose after hours in a doctor's office, playing with the various pieces of medical apparatus. Susie Mouse is caged for research...

Poet, musician, visual artist, and Afrofuturist Moor Mother roams a hallucinatory Mojave Desert alone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Moor Mother visits...

New York: Every night the mysterious "Night Owl" goes on the air with her moody radio show. She seems to have an inexplicable influence on some men;...

Filmed live at Tokyo Kosei Nenkin Kaikan on November 22, 2003

Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. ...

Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.

Documentary short showcasing the genius of jazz greats Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Cozy Cole, and Milt Hinton, among others.

Three basketball players step onto the court, each with a rhythm of their own. As their movements are studied and reimagined, their game is then...

A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.

Musical documentary on Latin jazz.

Considered for an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film (Animated).

A rain parade of sausages meets camels and kings in the 32 minute experimental syncing of Pharaoh Sanders' "The Creator has a master plan"

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.

The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s,...

A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.