Andrew is een veelbelovende 19-jarige drummer die studeert aan een berucht conservatorium in Manhattan. Hij wil echter niet zo maar een muzikant zijn. Achtervolgd door de mislukte carrière van zijn vader, die schrijver was, en de angst dat het wel eens genetisch kan zijn, droomt hij ervan om de top te bereiken.
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.
Schetsmatige tekeningen in een overzichtelijk kleurenpalet rond citaten van de Franse componist Erik Satie, op de muziek van Parade door het Willem Breuker Kollektief.
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.
American Pop is het verhaal van een getalenteerde en uiterst muzikale familie, die er echter niet in lijken te slagen om een normaal gezinsleven te leiden. Hun problemen lijken ze echter ook door te geven aan de volgende generaties en hun nakomelingen hebben het eveneens moeilijk in het leven. Gelukkig hebben alle gezinsleden houvast aan de muziek, die varieert van prille jazz en rock-'n-roll tot en met New Wave.
A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student.
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.
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.
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Deze korte jazzmusical heeft een komisch plot over huwelijks ontrouw. Bandleider Cab Calloway speelt een vrouwen versierder die uitgaat met de vrouw van een treinportier die niet veel thuis is . Calloway en zijn orkest spelen 'Zaz-zuh-zaz' en 'The Lady with the Fan' in de Cotton Club in Harlem.
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.
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.