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Chick Corea Elektric Band playing live at the Bern Jazz Festival (1986)

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Setlist: Fire In The Moon - Everyday - Ace Of Wand - Pollution B / The Steppes - Mechanical Bride - Spectral Mornings - Los Endos - Clocks

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The Band Live at The New Orleans Jazz Festival

A Film About Kids and Music is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together children between 6 and 18 years old, around a classic jazz repertoire with lots of swing, which gained the public’s attention and sold-out some of the most important music auditoriums in Spain.

While out on the road with noted jazz trombonist Chris Barber, discover the many highlights of his career and what makes him tick. Through interviews and live performances, this documentary reveals Barber's talent, insecurities and inspirations. A huge lover of New Orleans jazz music, the British-born Barber speaks candidly about the joy of performing, the hardships of touring and his musical philosophy.

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In early July of 2012, Scofield released, after ten years of record pause of ensemble Uberjam, a new and long-awaited album called Uberjam Deux...

Chris Barber is one of the most important pioneers of European jazz. This DVD celebrates his fiftieth anniversary as a professional musician. Recorded at Germany's Hot Jazz Festival 2002, he presents his new, eleven piece Big Chris Barber Band. And what a pleasure it is - the trombonist and his virtuoso bandmates confidently switch between New Orleans jazz and a tribute to the great Duke Ellington, playing swinging blues, and managing to inject new life into old favorites like Sweet Georgia Brown.

Bootsy Collins and his New Rubber Band live at Jazz Baltica, Salzau Germany, 1998, featuring P-Funk legends Garry Shider, Fred Wesley, Rick Gardner, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper and Frankie "Kash" Waddy.

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Buddy Rich and the Buddy Rich Big Band, live at the 1982 Montreal Jazz Festival features Buddy and his band at the height of their popularity and influence. Featured are seven arrangements that display not only Buddy Rich's virtuosity but his unsurpassed musicianship as well. These include a rare example of Buddy on brushes and a brilliant rendition of his signature piece, the medley from West Side Story.

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Clark Terry All Stars Band - New Morning Jazz Blues Festival Geneve

Cuban jazz sensation Hilario Durán and his band electrify audiences at the Toronto Jazz Festival in this energetic concert. Durán demonstrates his diversity and style with a program of mostly original pieces drawn from his numerous influences. Fellow musicians Paquito D'Rivera, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Alexis Baro and Dione Taylor pitch in for "Mambo Influenciado," "From the Heart," "Rumba for Chano," "Blem Blem Blem," "Angel Eyes" and more.

Paquito D'Rivera & The Madrid Big Band - Clazz Continental Latin Jazz - Live At Barcelona

Experience the classic big band sound of the 1940s with this jazz collection, which features tunes like Stan Kenton's "Eager Beaver," Sonny Dunham's "Sleepy Lagoon," Alvino Rey's "Saint Louis Blues," Buddy Rogers's "12th Street Rag" and many more. Other notable stars featured in this compilation include Bob Chester, Glen Gray and His Orchestra, Larry Clinton, Tony Pastor, Les Brown and Doris Day.

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

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.

A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

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.

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A group of coworkers are playing basketball. When one of them gets injured, they invite a passerby from the street to take his place. They have no idea what they've done...

The hero and heroine want to popularize trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to a London television studio to ask trad jazz musicians to perform in concert.

A series of musical vignettes formed from the dreams of a slumbering workman.