Take Me to the River

Take Me to the River is a film about the soul of American music. The film follows the recording of a new album featuring legends from Stax records and Memphis mentoring and passing on their musical magic to stars and artists of today.

2014-03-11 | en

Jazz Legends - Chet Baker Quintette

2022-03-31 | en

Hockshop Blues

Musical performers put on a show in a pawn shop to convince a man to give them the money they need to buy back their instruments.

1937-01-22 | en

Jasper in a Jam

In this entertaining Puppetoon animated short film, a young boy, Jasper, gets trapped inside a pawnshop at midnight. All the musical instruments come to life and play jazz. A whooping wooden Indian chief self-animates as well, and goes on the warpath.

1946-10-18 | en

In memoriam Duke Ellington

1993-11-30 | de

The Blues Brothers

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

1980-06-16 | en

Ray

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

2004-10-29 | en

Daybreak Express

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

1953-01-01 | en

Karmen Gei

Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.

2001-06-27 | fr

The Butterflies of Love

Two musical stars from the golden age of Hollywood get a second chance at rekindling their love in the modern world.

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His Body

On the last days of soul in Rio de Janeiro... Groove is everywhere in the night... and Carlos and Tony have unfinished business. A tribute to Blaxploitation, the queer horror jam "His Body" chronicles the supernatural meeting of two ex-lovers on a night packed with soul music in the 1970s' Rio de Janeiro.

2024-10-04 | pt

Thomas Carbou: Spectacle au Bleury - 2016

2022-04-02 | fr

What Difference Does It Make?

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.

2014-02-17 | en

You, the Living

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

2007-09-21 | sv

James Brown Soul Brother No. 1

The James Brown Story

1978-01-23 | en

Herb Ellis: Swing Jazz Soloing and Comping

"Comping (an abbreviation of accompanying) is a term used in jazz music to describe the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ) or guitar players use to support a jazz musician's improvised solo or melody lines. The term is also used for the action of accompanying, and for left hand part of a solo pianist."

1991-01-22 | en

Stevie Wonder Live Musikladen

1974 concert on German TV show Musikladen/Beat Club. 1. Jam 2. Contusion 3. Higher Ground 4. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing 5. I Can See The Sun In Late December 6. He's Misstra Know-It-All 7. Living For The City 8. Superstition. Stevie Wonder vocals, keyboards / Reggie McBride bass / Mike Sembello lead guitar, keyboards / Ollie E. Brown drums / Marlo Henderson rhythm guitar / Denice Williams, Shirley Brewer & Lani Groves background vocals

1974-01-23 | en

Miles Davis Live At Tanglewood 1970

Miles Davis performing live at Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood Massachusetts on August 18, 1970. Miles Davis tp / Chick Corea el-p / Keith Jarrett org / Gary Bartz ss, as / Dave Holland el-b / Jack DeJohnette dr / Airto Moreira perc 1. Directions 2. Bitches Brew 3. The Mask 4. It's About That Time 5. Sanctuary 6. Spanish Key 7. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

1970-08-18 | en

Liberty's Secret

The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds herself falling in love with a woman.

2016-11-04 | en

Tom Waits for No One

In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."

1979-01-01 | en