A Little Jive Is Good for You

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 exam...

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie,...

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

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67),a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose origina...

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing differ...

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 fo...

Louis Jordan's Orchestra perform Jordan Jive. Setting is a canteen, with the orchestra and audience in US military uniform. The Swing Maniacs go throu...

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...

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 c...

Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) o...

A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student. The short film the 2014 film was based on.