
A Man Called Adam
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational…

The Five Pennies
Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then…

The Beat Generation
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

A Song Is Born
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson….

Cabin in the Sky
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to…

Every Day’s a Holiday
In turn-of-the-century New York City, con artist Peaches O’Day befriends Captain Jim McCarey, a cop who must turn her in unless she leaves town. The clever Peaches returns transformed as…

A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he’s King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where…


