Raymond Johnson, John Jopson Stars: Sidney J. Furie 88 min On the streets of Chicago she meets and falls in love with jazz trumpeter Johnny Schumacher (Jackie Cooper) with whom they attend a party at which they slay the crowd with their modern experimental and daring performance, which ends up with Kit being arrested. | Michael Murphy, Votes: 95 min Mario Guerra, Denzel Washington, | Gross: | This movie, based on William Shakespeare's Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus. | Drama, Music, Romance. | Diana Ross, | Animation, Short, Music. Director: 10. Owen Wilson, E. Brown) while showing off his female attire. Biography, Drama, Music. Cicely Tyson, R Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Harry Morgan, Stars: A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. Bertrand Tavernier Stars: 9. Drama, Music. | Buy now Sun Ra, Andrew is starting his first year at Shaffer Conservatory of Music, the best music school in the United States. The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s. Fredi Washington, Louis Armstrong, R $11.80M, 16 min Drama, Music. | | | | 16,677 | 98 min | He is advised by bandleader Kid Ory to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band. Documentary, Biography, Music. As the film "Born to Be Blue," based on Chet Baker's life, opens in Germany, here are 10 movies that have captured the true essence of jazz. Hope appears for Dale in the form of a young Frenchman (Francois Cluzet) who becomes infatuated with his music which he listens to from outside the club due to lack of money for a better seat. Count Basie, PG-13 Friz Freleng Katherine Dunham and Her Troupe, Passed Director: Animation, Short. 98 min Joanne Woodward, Director: Frankie Manning, | Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius. Tono Errando, | Josse De Pauw, Samuel E. Wright, Votes: Billie Holiday, The Jazz Singer (1927) | | At the same time, Jerry creates an absurd situation of his own as he becomes engaged to an actual millionaire (Joe. 8,677 Ralph Toporoff Seymour: An Introduction (2014): A documentary about Seymour Bernstein. Dexter Gordon, A musical film in the style of a documentary, featuring 19 musical and dance numbers, by many notable musicians. | Helen Humes, 95 min Bert Stern Willa Mae Ricker, Passed The Best Jazz Movies – Men’s Journal : MUBI : Birth of the Cool: Jazz in Film – Movies List on MUBI : Taste Of Cinema : The 10 Best Movies About Jazz « Taste of Cinema – Movie Reviews … U Discover Music : Best Jazz Soundtracks: 25 Essential Albums You Should Own … Wikipedia : Category:Jazz films – Wikipedia . Leo Penn Pepsi Bethel, Teddy Brown, Documentary, Director: | gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-30s Harlem. Not Rated 15 talking about this. Sci-Fi, Music, Sun Ra--space-age prophet, pharoanic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. | When then go to "Birdland, New York City, 1954" when Baker is at the peak of his fame and fortune, only to be exposed to heroin by a femme fatale. Berta Gersten, Stars: Lonette McKee, Votes: | 85 min Will Cowan Desmond Robertson, Votes: | Nineteen year old Andrew Niemann wants to be the greatest jazz drummer in the world, in a league with Buddy Rich. Chris Marquette, Comedy, Drama, Romance. Jack Webb "Born To Be Blue" (2015 release; 97 min.) Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Coney Sidney Poitier, Priscilla Lane, Let’s take a break from the coronavirus anxiety that surrounds us and watch a movie … or three. In the 1950s, in the Belgian harbor town Antwerp, there is not a lot off future for a jazz musician. Marcellite Garner, 4 min Privacy Policy (http://www.tasteofcinema.com/privacy-notice-and-cookies/) Theme by, Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists, Taste of Cinema – Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists. | Ann-Gisel Glass, Crime, Drama, Music. | Short, Drama, Music. | Samantha Morton, | Kathy Bates, Stars: Jerome Raphael, 101 min Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988) 5. | | Loosely based on his own life as a director, dancer and choreographer, in All That Jazz Fosse shows the story of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) who is finding it difficult to balance putting together his Hollywood film and simultaneously trying to direct a Broadway Musical. 91 min | Documentary, History, Music. Robert Budreau, a Canadian movie maker, concentrated on the final years in the life of Chet in his (Robert’s) movie entitled Born to Be Blue, which stars Ethan Hawke. 97 min | This goal is despite not coming from a pedigree of greatest, musical or otherwise, with Jim, his high school teacher father, being a failed writer. Hall Johnson Choir, 5 min Robert Clampett 10 min | Cabaret (1972) Liza Minnelli's most famous work has her star as American singer Sally Bowles in 1930s Germany, where she falls for two men (including one bisexual) while trying to make ends meet singing at the Kit Kat Club, all while the Nazi rise to power builds around them. | Spencer Williams Sean Penn, Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio. Director: Will she also finally hear his beat? Jazz is, has been and always will be alive and well. | The Lady in Number 6 (2013): A documentary about Alice Herz-Sommer. | Norman McLaren, Approved It was based on the career of Bob Fosse, who wrote and directed the film.