Charlie Parker: Bird Songs

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.

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.

A 1975 documentary on the great Blues pianist Earl Hines, one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano.

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...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make...

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

"Comping (an abbreviation of accompanying) is a term used in jazz music to describe the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players...

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

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and...

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