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Rental > Music > Jazz & Blues: 82 Films to Rent on DVD
- Calle 54 (2000)
- Dir. Fernando Trueba
- A luxurious and overdue tribute to the charms of Latin jazz, dir. Tueba’s (BELLE EPOQUE) musical passion.
Interviews with greats like Tito…
- Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on Me (2000)
- Dir. Nicholas Triandafyllidis
Feat. Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- Featuring dozens of confidential interviews and footage of Screamin' Jay Hawkins final live performances, this film chronicles the blues legend's…
- Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
- A handful of sprightly elderly Cuban musicians assembled in 1996 by guitarist Ry Cooder produced, with their soulful, melodic jazz sound, the biggest…
- Ella Fitzgerald - Something to Live For (1999)
- Dir. Charlotte Zwerin
- A modest and carefully selected musical 'album' of jazz singer Fitzgerald's greatest years.
Not really biographical in its focus, this…
- Genghis Blues (1999)
- Dir. Roko Belic
- Absorbing, stranger–than–fiction tale of San Francisco singer Paul Pena’s passion for Tuvan ‘Throat–singing’…
- Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999)
- Dir. St. Clair Bourne
- Documentary exploring the life and career of Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and political activist whose distinctive bass baritone is heard on some…
- Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, The (1999)
- Produced after Ken Burns’ JAZZ, yet managing to illuminate ‘Satchmo’s’ life and times on several new levels, this artful collage of…
- Charlie Mingus - Triumph of the Underdog (1997)
- Dir. Don McGlyn
- The enigmatic bass player, as much known for his volcanic temperament as his musical innovations is well–served in jazz–documentarian…
- Masters Of American Music (1995)
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- Search for Robert Johnson (1992)
- Dir. Chris Hunt
- Essential documentary attempts to unshroud the mystery surrounding the legendary Blues singer/songwriter who was murdered in 1938 at only 27.