The first comprehensive documentary of Afro-American jazz bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus who led a tumultuous life filled with trauma and frustration, joy and creativity. Nine years in the making and exhaustively researched, virtually everything used in the film is extraordinarily rare. Abundant clips of Mingus in performance in the 1960s and 1970s perfectly illustrate the many faces and tortured heart of a musical genius.

A series of sixteen lectures by Bill Messenger on the origins and variety of Broadway musicals.

He penned songs such as Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet to Come (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, respectively) and wrote such musicals as Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, On the Twentieth Century, and The Will Rogers Follies yet his life has gone entirely unexplored until now. You Fascinate Me So takes readers into the world and work of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winning composer/performer Cy Coleman, exploring his days as a child...

A documentary on the Blue Note record label founded in 1939 by German Jewish immigrants, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff.

Explains how to learn to play the piano by mastering chords, and covers scales, tonality, triads, and improvisation

The film of the very historic jazz concert that took place at The International Jazz Hall of Fame in 1993. It captured, on film, a number of the legends of jazz, some for the last time, performing their signature songs. The Jazz Legends featured include: Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Rosemaru Clooney, Joe Williams, Tito Puente, Nancy Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Della Reese, Dorothy Donegan, Michael Bolton, and more.