Here we've displayed a list of the best Jazz Musician films : Whiplash(2014), The Legend of 1900(1998), Jazz on a Summer's Day(1959), A Tuba to Cuba(2018), A Great Day in Harlem(1994), Ragtime(1981), I Called Him Morgan(2016), American Pop(1981), Young Man With a Horn(1950), The Five Pennies(1959), Born to Be Blue(2015), Highway 61(1991) ... ...
Drama, Music
USA
2014
106 Minutes
Miles Teller J.K. Simmons Melissa Benoist Paul Reiser Austin Stowell Nate Lang Max Kasch Damon Gupton Chris Mulkey Suanne Spoke Charlie Ian
jazz musician drummer teacher friend family member band member confident emotional intense auditorium stage house car concert stage conservatory music drumming obsession life teaching
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Drama
Italy
1998
116 Minutes
Tim Roth Pruitt Taylor Vince Mélanie Thierry Bill Nunn Peter Vaughan Niall O'Brien Alberto Vázquez Clarence Williams III Gabriele Lavia Cory Buck Norman Chancer
pianist trumpeter mechanic jazz musician beautiful woman shopkeeper tender calm emotional fascinating music store ocean liner musicians outsider's life friendship orphans seafaring talent underdog discovery
A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
Documentary, Music
USA
1959
85 Minutes
Gerry Mulligan Louis Armstrong Dinah Washington Thelonious Monk Anita O'Day Chuck Berry Mahalia Jackson Danny Barcelona Urbie Green
jazz musician mahalia jackson anita o'day louis armstrong thelonious monk audience uplifting creative playful newport, r.i. stage festival jazz concert performance live show music newport jazz festival discovery quest
The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
Documentary, Music
Cuba|USA
2018
84 Minutes
T.G. Herrington Preservation Hall Jazz Band
jazz musician friend band member confident cool endearing engaging inspiring cuba new orleans music heritage jazz connections adventure discovery 2010s
A TUBA TO CUBA follows New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have been imagined.
Documentary
USA
1994
60 Minutes
Quincy Jones Dizzy Gillespie Sonny Rollins Buck Clayton Art Blakey Hank Jones Art Farmer Johnny Griffin Milt Hinton Chubby Jackson
jazz musician photographer charming engaging new york city harlem, n.y. daunting task music jazz musicians photography quest discovery 1950s
The documentary compiles interviews of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine.
Drama
USA
1981
155 Minutes
James Cagney Howard E. Rollins Jr. Elizabeth McGovern Brad Dourif Moses Gunn Kenneth McMillan Pat O'Brien Donald O'Connor James Olson Mandy Patinkin Mary Steenburgen
maid jazz musician father mother showgirl fireman charming fascinating crafty new york city white plains, n.y. new rochelle, n.y. murder race relations love historical events adventure revenge love 1900s
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Documentary
Sweden|USA
2016
92 Minutes
jazz musician husband wife confident cool fascinating offbeat new york city east village studio love nursing jazz drug addiction domestic violence discovery love revenge transformation sacrifice
An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.
Musical, Animation
USA
1981
97 Minutes
immigrant vaudevillian jazz musician songwriter rock star stripper spectacular passionate russia new york city theater studio hotel show business music history vaudeville rock 'n' roll family history rise transformation
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.
Drama
USA
1950
112 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall Doris Day Hoagy Carmichael Juano Hernandez Jerome Cowan Mary Beth Hughes Nestor Paiva Orley Lindgren Walter Reed Alex Gerry
music teacher jazz musician musician socialite engaging unrestrained jazz club lounge street jazz race relations obsession forbidden love rise sacrifice 1950s
A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
Musical
USA
1959
117 Minutes
Danny Kaye Barbara Bel Geddes Bob Crosby Harry Guardino Susan Gordon Tuesday Weld Valerie Allen Ray Anthony Shelly Manne Bobby Troup Ray Daly
jazz musician wife louis armstrong daughter coworker bandleader spirited touching cool tender new york city san francisco los angeles jazz club family home red nichols jazz musicians polio father/daughter relationship
Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to ... See full summary »
Romance, Drama, History, Biography, Music
Canada|UK
2015
97 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Carmen Ejogo Callum Keith Rennie Tony Nappo Janet-Laine Green Dan Lett Kedar Brown Kevin Hanchard Stephen McHattie
musician jazz musician trumpeter love interest moving emotional engaging charming brooding united states music jazz music business comeback romance biography rise 1960s
A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.
Drama
Canada
1991
99 Minutes
Don McKellar Valerie Buhagier Earl Pastko Jello Biafra Peter Breck
barber jazz musician satan roadie drug smuggler offbeat quirky amusing ontario, canada new orleans highway car road trip drug smuggling deception quest discovery pursuit 1990s
A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.
Musical
USA
1941
89 Minutes
Priscilla Lane Betty Field Richard Whorf Lloyd Nolan Jack Carson Wallace Ford Howard da Silva Elia Kazan
convict jazz musician jazz singer femme fatale pianist dark quirky amusing st. louis new orleans new jersey roadhouse stage jazz ambition touring friendship scam crime rise
"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1953
82 Minutes
Vittorio Gassman Gloria Grahame Ann Robinson Douglas Spencer Robin Raymond Jerry Paris Elizabeth Slifer Richard Reeves Joe Turkel Michael Fox Kathleen Freeman
illegal alien veteran fugitive factory worker inspector jazz musician melodramatic intricate patriotic new york city immigration postwar america fresh start fugitives escape quest 1950s
Peter, a WW II 'displaced person' about to be deported jumps ship in New York harbor in an effort to find an ex-G.I named Tom whom he helped during the war and can prove Peter's right to ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
2014
84 Minutes
Cathy Diane Tomlin Garrett Marchbank
saxophonist jazz musician addict emotional passionate san quentin federal penitentiary los angeles biography redemption fall 20th century
At the late night jam sessions in LA, Jazz musicians used to dedicate their shows to the greatest alto sax player in the world, Frank Morgan, but if you wanted to hear him, you had to go to San Quentin. We went.
Horror
UK
1965
98 Minutes
Peter Cushing Christopher Lee Donald Sutherland Max Adrian Ann Bell Michael Gough Jennifer Jayne
fortuneteller passenger architect doctor vampire jazz musician art critic suspenseful melodramatic frightful creepy campy train united kingdom horror adventure mystery 1960s
Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.
Romance
USA
1961
98 Minutes
Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Sidney Poitier Louis Armstrong Diahann Carroll Serge Reggiani Barbara Laage Andre Luguet Marie Versini Aaron Bridgers
jazz musician tourist expatriate love interest friend emotional intricate solemn paris nightclub eiffel tower racism performance relocation integrity jazz romantic dilemma sacrifice discovery 1960s
During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.
Musical
USA
1937
95 Minutes
Carole Lombard Fred MacMurray Charles Butterworth Jean Dixon Dorothy Lamour Harvey Stephens Cecil Cunningham Charles Arnt Franklin Pangborn Anthony Quinn Charles Judels
singer jazz musician roommate old flame agent hypochondriac gripping brooding panama court apartment club new york city radio station musicians poverty marriage jealousy infidelity depression
A singer stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by work and the arrival of an old flame.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1953
73 Minutes
John Ireland Richard Denning Suzanne Dalbert Robert Foulk Michael Connors Richard Avonde
fbi agent chief jazz musician friend wife frenchman tense chilling los alamos, n.m. louisiana coney island submarine washington, d.c. marseilles, france atomic bomb investigation espionage government agents impersonation smuggling
During the Cold War, the Defense Department's War Games team smuggles 48 nuclear bomb parts into the USA to test the nation's readiness for a subversive attack but an unexplained 49th bomb part mysteriously shows up.
Drama
UK
1960
92 Minutes
David Farrar Noëlle Adam Christopher Lee Gillian Hills Adam Faith Shirley Anne Field Peter McEnery Claire Gordon Oliver Reed
divorce teen girl beatnik jazz musician stepmother dance hall girl brash campy cheeky hedonistic melodramatic quirky sultry england divorce stepfamily rivalry growing up 1960s
An impetuous teenage girl, resentful of her father's new wife, tries to wreck the marriage regardless of the consequences.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Canada|Luxembourg|Belgium
2019
92 Minutes
Juliette Lewis Stephen McHattie Henry Rollins Tómas Lemarquis Lisa Houle Hana Sofia Lopes Guillaume Kerbusch Astrid Roos
jazz musician wife hitman hedonistic striking party sex trade drugs addiction wretched excess 2010s
On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stone cold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.
Comedy, Drama
2013
97 Minutes
Hlayani Junior Mabasa Okwethu Banisi Andrea Dondolo Nicholas Ellenbogen Wonga Fasi Adrian Galley Joseph Hughes Andre Jacobs
son mother widow jazz musician charming creative emotional engaging heartwarming inspiring playful positive sad south africa father/son relationship mother/son relationship music musical influences jazz following your dreams
Crime, Drama
1963
93 Minutes
Alfred Lynch Kathleen Breck Eric Portman
ex-soldier aunt loser jazz musician criminal intense gory suspenseful thrilling emotional melodramatic london jazz club coffee shop accidental murder murder witness wealth deal police pursuit fear
A London loser (Alfred Lynch) with an ear for jazz agrees to kill an ex-army man's (Eric Portman) aunt.
Musical, Comedy
1956
92 Minutes
teacher headmaster classmate jazz musician airy amusing emotional inspiring charming heartwarming school music stage jazz club classroom pub jazz piano music education strike passion
British students rally round a teacher (John Mills) fired by the new headmaster (Cecil Parker) for buying musical instruments.
Biography
1959
101 Minutes
drummer jazz musician girlfriend parent priest friend touching melodramatic emotional uplifting chicago new york city club stage party gene krupa music jazz father/son relationship rise to stardom
The jazz drummer (Sal Mineo) alienates his girlfriend (Susan Kohner) and his buddy (James Darren), goes to jail and makes a comeback.
Musical, Comedy
1962
73 Minutes
Helen Shapiro Craig Douglas Felix Felton Arthur Mullard
teenager older man older woman townspeople jazz musician amusing hilarious lighthearted small town music stage festival england united kingdom jazz music generation gap british culture small town discovery growing up
Two teens (Helen Shapiro, Craig Douglas) organize a jazz festival despite objections from the mayor (Felix Felton).