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Netflix
89
8.5
/1133718/
84
/31654/
83
/16250/
4.4
/3922211/
94
/304/
94
/5080/
89
/50/
cc age 15+

Whiplash (2014)
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
poster
84
7.8
/7692/
81
/797/
78
/390/
4.0
/45257/
94
/304/
94
/5087/
89
/50/

Whiplash (2013)
A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student.
poster
74
7.3
/2609/
71
/130/
72
/64/
3.5
/3363/
74
/43/
77
/10/
69
/13/
cc age 14+

Chasing Trane (2017)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.6
/20456/
68
/659/
65
/454/
3.3
/15354/
83
/29/
67
/617/
cc age 8+

The Nutty Professor (1963)
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
poster
68
7.7
/1088/
70
/10/
52
/12/
3.5
/457/
60
/5/
85
/4/

Hey Babu Riba (1985)
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.
poster
fuboTV
70
65
7.2
/6003/
71
/169/
69
/116/
3.8
/8987/
68
/19/
80
/223/
57
/8/

American Pop (1981)
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.
poster
64
34
6.7
/1504/
63
/20/
62
/29/
3.4
/853/
60
/222/

Blues in the Night (1941)
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
poster
56
32
6.3
/1646/
51
/22/
61
/28/
3.2
/719/
60
/5/
40
/23/

Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
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.
poster
MGM Plus
53
31
5.7
/1896/
57
/33/
58
/37/
2.9
/1017/
32
/964/

Second Chorus (1941)
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 exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
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Kanopy
72
28
7.1
/387/
63
/11/
68
/15/
3.6
/616/
93
/14/
67
/4/

Come Back, Africa (1959)
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
poster
47
28
5.1
/1503/
57
/41/
50
/57/
2.7
/1371/
22
/186/

Tango Tangles (1914)
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
poster
69
21
7.3
/719/
67
/24/
68
/22/
3.5
/585/

Dixieland Droopy (1954)
John Pettibone (Droopy), a dog whose love of Dixieland music is not appreciated by those around him, has a lucky meeting with Pee-Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland band at the circus.
poster
58
20
6.1
/972/
61
/9/
56
/15/
3.1
/529/
50
/212/

The Strip (1951)
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
19
6.3
/352/
59
/18/
59
/13/
3.6
/1103/

The Cry of Jazz (1959)
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.
poster
70
18
7.6
/430/
58
/8/
71
/18/
3.7
/643/

The Apartment Above (1937)
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.
poster
68
18
7.2
/297/
66
/13/
62
/15/
3.6
/876/

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
poster
63
17
6.6
/403/
60
/15/
62
/27/
3.4
/327/

Jam Session (1942)
Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.
poster
?
9.2
/10/

Notes in a Minor Key (1994)
Set in Harlem in 1947, this film is the story of Grandpa Kansas and his jazz band that set out to become world famous only to be thwarted by jealousy and envy - leaving behind shattered dreams and deep regrets. Though made at NYU, this film was produced under Walt Disney / Hollywood Pictures Discretionary Fund Program, and has won the top prize in multiple film competitions by respected institutions, including The Black American Cinema Society, Black Filmmaker Hall of Fame, and the Atlanta / Image Film Festival.
poster
?
50
/1/

Solo en un día (2016)
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.
poster
?
50
/1/

Discovering Ella (2023)
The (mostly) true story of the greatest jazz drummer you've never heard of who stumbled upon a 16-year-old singer and nurtured her into a legend.
poster
?
100
/1/

Sparni (2023)
It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist studying at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Sparni’s prospects on the vibes were rejuvenated by their new professor, the world-renowned Steve Nelson, and are to be showcased during a student-driven recital in May 2023. But all the while, Sparni must face a crisis within.
poster
?
6.8
/39/
65
/2/

A Little Jive Is Good for You (1941)
Martha Tilton sings in this Soundies film from 1941, with Slate Brothers, and Ben Pollack and His Orchestra accompanying.
poster
?
70
/1/

Jordan Jive (1944)
Louis Jordan's Orchestra perform Jordan Jive. Setting is a canteen, with the orchestra and audience in US military uniform. The Swing Maniacs go through some extremely strenuous acrobatic dancing.
poster
52
?
6.4
/59/
56
/3/
20
/2/
3.5
/299/

The Sound of Freedom (2010)
Based on true events. USSR, 1950s. As the reach of the oppressive communist regime escalates,
poster
?
7.5
/13/
80
/1/

Bring It to the People - the film about the Brussels Jazz Orchestra (2020)
N/A
poster
46
?
5.6
/106/
10
/1/
72
/4/

Band of Thieves (1962)
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.
poster
Cultpix
?
5.3
/20/
10
/1/
50
/1/

The Flamboyant Sex (1961)
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.
poster
66
?
6.2
/124/
70
/1/

Shoe Shine Boy (1943)
A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.
poster
60
?
6.1
/136/
60
/1/

The Crimson Canary (1945)
When a conniving female singer turns up dead, with the evidence pointing to the band’s drummer, jazz trumpeter Danny Brooks attempts to clear him—only to implicate himself and the rest of the band in the process. Can a jazz-loving police detective and Danny’s fiancée solve the case before the next downbeat?
poster
?
7.0
/33/
10
/1/

Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams (2015)
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.
poster
60
?
6.7
/47/
47
/9/
62
/4/
5.3
/680/

Satie's "Parade" (2016)
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.
poster
57
?
5.6
/354/
55
/18/
61
/9/

Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street (2016)
In late 1950s Poland, jazzman Fabian returns from England and forms a swing big band that quickly rises to fame. Their glamorous new singer, the enigmatic Modesta, becomes both the group’s star and Fabian’s love interest. As their success begins to resemble a Hollywood musical, the authorities take a growing interest in their world of music and romance.
poster
?

Bill & Daisy (2020)
after mourning the passing of his late wife, Bill finds the courage to travel to New York City and reconnect with his favorite mistress.
poster
?

Na zawsze Melomani (2023)
N/A
poster
?

Great Artists Steal (2024)
Set in 1980s Melbourne, a disgraced jazz pianist attempts to get back into his former band by sabotaging his replacement.
poster
?

Standards I/II (2008)
N/A
poster
?

Pink Martini Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart (2010)
N/A
poster
?

Jazz Icons: Art Blakey Live in '65 (2009)
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 Blakey bands, the New Jazzmen, featuring the incomparable Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, as well as Jaki Byard on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, Nathan Davis on sax and, of course, Art Blakey on drums—truly a powerhouse quintet! Freddie Hubbard’s incendiary playing on “Blue Moon” and the blistering 24-minute version of his own “Crisis,” serves as a cogent reminder that he was one of the most innovative trumpeters in jazz history. Setlist: The Hub / Blue Moon / Crisis / NY Theme


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