Jazz in the Movies: Bird (1988)
“Charlie Parker is the Beethoven of jazz.” I read that line long before I ever knew the music of Charles Christopher “Yardbird”...
Jazz in the Movies: The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2016)
You’re walking in a big city and, from somewhere nearby, you hear jazz. You see an anonymous doorway and wonder, “What’s going...
Jazz in the Movies: Kansas City (1996)
The late Robert Altman was a maverick filmmaker whose greatest films featured large casts, overlapping dialogue and strong soundtracks to portray American...