Jazz Musician Movies, Movies about Jazz Musician

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) ... ...

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Whiplash

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.

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The Legend of 1900

A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.

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Jazz on a Summer's Day

The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

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A Tuba to Cuba

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.

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A Great Day in Harlem

The documentary compiles interviews of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine.

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Ragtime

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.

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I Called Him Morgan

An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

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American Pop

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.

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Young Man With a Horn

A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.

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The Five Pennies

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 »

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Born to Be Blue

A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.

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Highway 61

A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.

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Blues in the Night

"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 »

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The Glass Wall

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 »

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Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story

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.

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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.

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Paris Blues

During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.

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Swing High, Swing Low

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.

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The 49th Man

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.

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Wild for Kicks

An impetuous teenage girl, resentful of her father's new wife, tries to wreck the marriage regardless of the consequences.

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Dreamland

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.

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Felix

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West 11

A London loser (Alfred Lynch) with an ear for jazz agrees to kill an ex-army man's (Eric Portman) aunt.

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It's Great to Be Young

British students rally round a teacher (John Mills) fired by the new headmaster (Cecil Parker) for buying musical instruments.

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The Gene Krupa Story

The jazz drummer (Sal Mineo) alienates his girlfriend (Susan Kohner) and his buddy (James Darren), goes to jail and makes a comeback.

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Ring-A-Ding Rhythm

Two teens (Helen Shapiro, Craig Douglas) organize a jazz festival despite objections from the mayor (Felix Felton).

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