Jazz and the Blues

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Documentaries and Performance

• And This is Free
• Archie Shepp I am Jazz
• At the Jazz Band Ball
• The Best of Jazz and Blues
• Black Artists of the Silver Screen (series)
• Black Jazz and Blues(St. Louis Blues, Symphony in Black, Caldonia)
• Blues Masters : history of the blues
• Buena vista social club
• The Call of the Jitterbug
• Calle 54
• Can't you hear the wind howl? The life and music of Robert Johnson
• Celebrating Bird
• Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog
• The Coltrane Legacy
• Daybreak Express
• Dee Dee Bridgewater
• Deep Blues a musical pilgrimage to the crossroads
• Dizzy's dream band
• Duke Ellington
• Ella Fitzgerald something to live for
• Elvin Jones Jazz Machine
• The Essential history of the blues
• A Great Day In Harlem
• Imagine the sound
• International sweethearts of rhythm
• Jazz 34
• Jazz Age
• Jazz Band Ball
• Jazz Casuals
• Jazz Classics
  • Bessie Smith and friends
  • Count Basic and friends 1943 1945
  • Duke Ellington and his orchestra 1929 1952
  • Fats Waller and friends 1941 1946
  • Louis Armstrong and his orchestra 1942 1965
  • Louis Jordan and friends 1941 1945
  • Nat King Cole Killer Diller
  • Symphony of Swing with Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and friends
• Jazz Collection
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Count Basie
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater
  • John Coltrane
  • Bill Evans
  • Gil Evans
  • B.B. King
  • Gerry Mulligan
  • Max Roach
  • Fats Waller
• Jazz is our Religion
• Jazz on a Summer's Day
• Jazz Scene USA
  • Jeni LeGon Living in a great big way (d. G. Greschuk, 1999)
  • Phinease Newborn, Jimmy Smith Trio
  • Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers
  • Frank Rosolino, Stan Kenton
  • Cannonball Adderley, Teddy Edwards
• Jumpin jive
• Keep on Walking
• The ladies sing the blues
• Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
• Larry Wright
• Last of the Blue Devils
• Listen Up the Lives of Quincy Jones
• Machito a Latin Jazz Legacy
• Mahalia Jackson
• Miles in Paris
• Mingus
• Mississippi Blues
• Monk in Oslo
• New Orleans: Til the butcher cuts him down
• On the road again down home blues, jazz, gospel and more
• On the road with Duke Ellington
• Piano legends
• Portrait of Pee Wee Russell
• Reed Royalty
• Satchmo
• Search for Robert Johnson
• Steve Allen's Jazz Scene
• Story of Jazz
• Sun Ra, a joyful noise
• Tenor Titans
• Thelonious Monk Straight no chaser
• Tiny and Ruby Hell divin' women
• Those singin' dancin' fools!
• Too Close to Heaven
• Trumpet Kings
• Vintage Getz
• Yours for a song the women of Tin Pan Alley

Feature Films, Musicals, and Cartoons

• Absolute Beginners
• Alfie
• Alexander's ragtime band
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Asphalt Jungle
• Assult on a Queen
• Ball of Fire
• Band Wagon
• Bathing Beauty
• Begone Dull Care in Selected Films: Norman McLaren
• Bell Book and Candle
• Belle of the Nineties
• Benny Goodman Story
• Best Foot Forward
• Betty Boop, definitive collection [V. 2], Pre-code: Jazzy guest stars
• Beware
• Big Broadcast of 1938
• Big Combo
• Big Knife
• Bird
• Birth of the Blues
• Bix
• Blackboard Jungle
• Blazing Saddles
• Blue Gardenia
• Blue Ice
• Broken Strings
• Bronze Buckaroo
• Bye Bye Blues
• Carmen Jones
• Color of Money
• Connection
• Cotton Club
• Dingo
• D.O.A.
• Every Day's a Holiday
• Fabulous Dorseys
• Five Pennies
• Four Daughters
• Gene Krupa Story
• Glenn Miller Story
• Hi De Ho
• High Society
• I Want to Live
• I'll See you in my Dreams
• Jazz Singer (1927, 1952)
• Juke Joint
• Kansas City
• King of Jazz
• Knife in the Water
• Lady Sings the Blues
• The Long Goodbye
• Look Out Sister
• Love With the Proper Stranger
• Lucky ghost
• Lush Life
• The Man I Love
• The Man With the Golden Arm
• Mo' Better Blues
• Murder on Lenox Avenue
• Murmur of the Heart
• New Kind of Love
• New Orleans
• New York New York
• Odds Against Tomorrow
• On our Merry Way
• Orchestra Wives
• Our Dancing Daughters
• Our Modern Maidens
• Paradise in Harlem
• Paris Blues
• Pennies From Heaven
• Pete Kelly's Blues
• Phantom Lady
• Piccadilly
• Pink Panther
• Pretty Baby
• Repulsion
• Rhythm on the River
• Round Midnight
• Second Chorus
• The Servant
• Shadows
• Short Cuts
• The Sky's the Limit
• Some Like it Hot
• A Song is Born
• Song of the Thin Man
• Stage Door Canteen
• Stations of the Elevated
• Stormy Monday
• Streetcar Named Desire
• Strike up the Band
• Sun Valley Serenade
• Sweet and lowdown
• Sweet Love, Bitter
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Swing
• Swing High Swing Low
• Thousands Cheer
• Walk on the Wild Side
• The Wild One
• Young Man with a Horn