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Summary: Discover the life and music of jazz luminary Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history. Filmed over six years, Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes invites viewers to meet the gentleman behind the bass. Best known as the rhythmic anchor in Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, Carter has since amassed more than 2,500 musical credits over a prolific six-decade career. His unmistakable melody...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RON

Summary: Documentary portrait of jazz visionary Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUN

Summary: Clark Terry, an internationally renowned trumpeter, began his career in the 1940's. He has worked with legendary greats such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington. His love of music even crossed over into the education field and is a noted author of books on trumpet techniques.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CLA

Summary: A group of addicts in a dingy apartment await the arrival of their "connection," to bring them heroin, while a documentary film maker struggles to film them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CON

Armstrong, Louis

Summary: One of the world's best-loved performers, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, headlines this exclusive concert, performed and shot in Australia circa 1964. A five-piece band comprised of Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw, Danny Barcelona, Trummy Young and Joe Darensbourg, backs up Armstrong, while singer Jewel Brown lends added vocal support. Selections include: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco, " "Sweet Georgia...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LOU

Summary: Jazz musician Danny Parker becomes a drifter among the drug dealers and criminals of Los Angeles after the murder of his wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SAL

Summary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Summary: A biographical look at Charlie Christian, an influential jazz guitarist. Includes remembrances from various friends and musicians and performances by Benny Garcia, Eldon Shamblin, Billy Dozier, Herb Ellis and various other musicians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vestapol 2006

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CHA

Summary: Billy Tipton was a transgender jazz musician whose career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, but this fact wasn't known until after his death in the late 1980s. At the time, his story was framed as that of an ambitious woman merely trying to get ahead in a male-dominated music scene, but by collaborating with trans artists, that story is correctly celebrated as that of a trans culture icon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NO

Summary: A powerful drama about a jazz musician who "has it all," love, friendship, and fame, but whose tormented past threatens to destroy him and his career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAN

Summary: The documentary chronicles the life of saxophonist Ronnie Scott, a poor Jewish kid who grew up in 1940s East End, London who became owner of the eponymous nightclub. Musical greats spanning decades played at Ronnie₂s including Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nina Simone, Van Morrison, Chet Baker, and Jimi Hendrix, who played there the night of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RON

Summary: A bandleader scuffles from gig to gig with his band, trying to keep body and soul together without betraying his muse, a sexy would-be singer with a dark past who meets the bandleader at a party. When she joins his band, the two fall deeply in love, but their world comes crumbling down after the leader and his band are involved in a bar fight and he is overcome by fear and is unable to fight...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] Olive Films 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOO

Summary: Despite blindness, becoming paralyzed, and America's racial prejudices, Rahsaan Kirk was a one of a kind musician. His career was sparked by his desire to give more exposure to jazz music, particularly on television.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAS

Summary: In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIL

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Summary: Jazz legend Chet Baker's tumultuous life is thrillingly re-imagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOR

Summary: A PBS miniseries in which a black jazz band becomes a huge success and ends up entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DAN

Summary: Revisit with the remaining original members of the Buena Vista Social Club and explore their contribution to the unknown history of Cuba.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Tatum, Art

Summary: Documents the career of jazz pianist Art Tatum through interviews, rare footage, and photographs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2008

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ART

Summary: Episode 1. Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAZ

Summary: The Billie Holiday The Ultimate Collection DVD features rare TV and film performances, an especially rare radio interview with Mike Wallace, an audio-only rehearsal session with pianist Jimmy Rowles, audio interviews with friends and fellow musicians, an interactive timeline and an evocative photo-document gallery featuring hundreds of images, from rare photos to personal letters, plus Lady...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Enterprises 2005

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BIL

Evans, Bill

Contents: My foolish heart--Israel--Detour ahead--My melancholy baby--Emily--Alfie--Someday my prince will come--If you could see me now--'Round midnight--Someday my prince will come--Sleepin' bee--you're gonna hear from me--Re: Person I knew--Sareen Jurer--Blue Serge--Up with the lark--But beautiful--Twelve tone tune two

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2008

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BIL

Summary: Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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4 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOU

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOU

Summary: Depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy. Justin, fighting a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KEE

Davis, Miles

Summary: Examines the life of Miles Davis through his music, home movies, and his manuscripts and paintings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIL

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