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Miles Ahead is a 2015 American biographical-drama film directed by Don Cheadle in his feature directorial debut, which Cheadle co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Stephen J. Rivele, and Christopher Wilkinson, which interprets the life and compositions of jazz musician Miles Davis. The film stars Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, and Ewan McGregor, and ...
Calle 54. Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog. The Church of Saint Coltrane. The Cole Nobody Knows. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. The Cry of Jazz.
United States. Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story is the 2022 American documentary film based on the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The documentary directed by Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 13, 2022. It was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in limited theatres on May ...
Mingus Moves (Atlantic SD 1653) is one of the late works of American jazz bassist, composer, and bandleader Charles Mingus. He hired three new musicians for the recording: Don Pullen on piano; Ronald Hampton on trumpet, and George Adams on tenor saxophone. Drummer Dannie Richmond, a stalwart of Mingus's bands in the 1950s and '60s, rejoined the ...
La La Land is a 2016 American musical romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a struggling jazz pianist and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. The supporting cast includes John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, and J ...
Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name which in turn originated in the 1926 play of the same name. It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. [4] The film stars an ensemble cast led by Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and ...
The Last of the Blue Devils, subtitled The Kansas City Jazz Story, is a 1979 film documentary with notable figures from the history of Kansas City jazz starring Count Basie and Big Joe Turner. The film was produced and directed by Bruce Ricker .
The film is described as "semi-factual, semi-fictional". [8] Variety's reviewer, Andrew Barker, noted that the film is "about a character who happens to share a name and a significant number of biographical similarities with Chet Baker, taking the legendary West Coast jazz musician's life as though it were merely a chord chart from which to launch an improvised set of new melodies". [2]