Jazz on Film
By: Ehsan Khoshbakht
See also Best 25 Motion Pictures Jazz Score
Latest Additions:
Two Charles Mingus Films:
Mingus (1968)
Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998)
Three Sun Ra Films:
Cry of Jazz (1959)
The Magic Sun (1966)
Space Is the Place (1974)
Hi De Ho (1937)
Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe (1966)
INCLUDING PERFORMANCES BY J A Z Z MUSICIANS:
Paradise in Harlem (1939)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
New Orleans (1947)
Syncopation (1942)
Make Believe Ballroom (1949)
Ship Ahoy (1942)
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
STARRING A JAZZMAN:
Ballad in Blue (1966)
SLIGHTLY JAZZY:
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
The Jolson Story (1946)
Piaf (1974)
JAZZY IN MOOD OR PLOT:
Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)
Sven Klang’s Combo (1976)
WITH A JAZZ SCORE:
Blow-Up
In Cold Blood
Last Tango in Paris
Repulsion
Naked Lunch
J A Z Z DOCUMENTARY:
- Mingus (1968)
- Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998)
- Chico Hamilton; Dancing To A Different Drummer
- Blue Note; A History Of Modern Jazz
- Jazz Seen : The Life And Times Of William Claxton
- Chico Hamilton; Dancing To A Different Drummer ( Directors Cut 2002)
- Always For Pleasure
- A Well Spent Life
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Dizzy Gillespie; Jazz In America
- Sworn To The Drum
- Trumpet Kings
- Piano Legends
- Reed Royalty
- Joe Williams; Portrait In Song
- The Miles Davis Story
- Keith Jarrett; The Art Of Improvisation
- Jazz In Exile
- Blues Like Showers Of Rain
- Jazz Is Our Religion
- Born To Swing
- To The Count Of Basie
- Billie Holiday: The Long Night Of Lady Day
- Prez; A Jazz Opera
- The Real Cotton Club
- The History Of Boogie Woogie
- Swing Under The Swastika
- Fiddlers Three
- Ben Webster The Brute And The Beautiful
- Adelaide Hall Sophisticated Lady
- Django Legacy
- Joe Albany: A Jazz Life
- Art Pepper; Notes From A Jazz Survivor
- The Mills Brothers Story
- The Soundies
- Dexter Gordon : More Than You Know
- Charles Mingus: Triumph Of The Underdog
- Over The Rainbow: Harold Arlen
- Louis Prima; The Wildest
- Horace Parlon On Horace Parlon
- The Legend Of Teddy Edwards
- Sweethearts Of Rythmn
- Ruby And Tiny; Hell Divin’ Women
- Maxine Sullivan; Love To Be In Love
- Last Of The Blue Devils
- Jim Hall: A Life In Progress
- Keeping Time : Milt Hinton
- Tony Bennet: The Music Never Ends
- Thelonious Monk; American Composer
- Sarah Vaughan; The Devine One (1991)
- The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday
- Straight, No Chaser
- Something To Live For: Ella Fitzgerald
- Satchmo the Great (1957)
- New Orleans: Til The Butcher Cuts Him Down
- All-Star Swing Festival (1972)
- Celebrating Bird: the Triumph of Charlie (1987)
- Ornette: Made in America (1987)
- Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger (1989)
- The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989)
- Listen Up!: The lives of Quincy Jones (1991)
- Bransford Marsalis: The Music Tells You (1992)
- Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe (1966)
SHORT AND AVANT-GARDE JAZZ FILMS:
The Magic Sun (1966)
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01Bert Stern
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02Paul Bernays
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03Bertrand Tavernier
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04Clint Eastwood
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05Otto Preminger
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06Bruce Weber
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07Jean Bach
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08Clint Eastwood
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09Gjon Mili
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10Woody Allen
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11Robert Altman
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12Otto Preminger
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13Robert Wise
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14Alan Crosland
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15Barbara Kopple
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16Louis Malle
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17Marc Huraux
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18Hannah Rothschild
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19Reto Caduff
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20Evelyn Lambart
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21Michael Curtiz
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22Melville Shavelson
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23Valentine Davies
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24Alexander Mackendrick
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25Basil Dearden
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26Lewis Gilbert
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27John Cassavetes
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28Shirley Clarke
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29Roger Vadim
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30Andrew L. Stone
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31Sidney J. Furie
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32Anthony Mann
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33Robbie Cavolina
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34Don Weis
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35Howard Hawks
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36Jack Webb
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37Edward Bland
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38Arthur Penn
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39Sun Ra
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40Archie Mayo
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41John Murray Anderson
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42Vincente Minnelli
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43John Cassavetes
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44Roy Mack
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45Damien Chazelle
