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

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

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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.

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.

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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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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.

The Band Live at The New Orleans Jazz Festival

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

after mourning the passing of his late wife, Bill finds the courage to travel to New York City and reconnect with his favorite mistress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

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.

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

A Soundie featuring Moore and Revel with the Dixieland Jazz Band.

A Soundie with the Dixieland Jazz Band.

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...

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.

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.