The late composer, musician and bandleader Duke Ellington once said, ''I contend that the Negro is the creative voice of America, IS creative America, and it was a happy day when the first unhappy ...

An amazingly timely Netflix release, it tells a story of aspiring to high ideals, an uplifting film on every level… a story of moral fortitude with great music and unimaginably (at the time) dynamic ...

Since the 1930s, jazz music has had a thriving, tight-knit scene that Doucette said is a strong community today. Along with ...

JAZZ : A HISTORY OF AMERICAS MUSIC BY GEOFFREY C WARD BASED ON A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY KEN BURNS WRITTEN BY GEOFFREY C WARD WITH A PREFACE BY KEN BURNS ...

This hour-long documentary (2002) about one of the great jazz bassists—who was also a major photographer of jazz musicians and performances—has a fascinating story to tell as well as a charismatic ...

Singer Julie London was the first video vocalist. I don't mean that she was the first to appear in film. Plenty of others came before her. But she was the first to fully understand how to use the ...

More about Bailey and his fit with the Jazz. The reality for Utah Jazz fans is that the whole season might always include Ace ...

Recording includes samples of soundtrack music with thematic titles such as Trains, Spiritual in F, Cartoons, and Seen a few places. Each is introduced by an unnamed man. Notes copied from tape: ...

Ask me to name three feel-good films and I’ll rattle off a trio of lesser-known choices: the Ali-Foreman debacle When We Were Kings (1996), the noodle-western Tampopo(1985) and A Great Day in Harlem, ...