Movies and TvShows featuring "modern-jazz" theme.

Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.

This documentary explores the life and career of Tony Scott, a talented jazz clarinetist who faced various challenges and ultimately met an unfortunate fate. It delves into his rise to fame, his struggles with poverty and paranoia, and the role that Italy, as well as other countries, played in his downfall.

The only doco to record the early years of Australian jazz. This lovingly compiled celluloid history of the Melbourne jazz scene is a fascinating study of an era and a social milieu, as well as a music documentary. Revisit Melbourne's early years with Benny Featherstone, the Early Conventions, jive with Frank Johnson's fabulous Dixielanders at Collingwood Town Hall, a riverboat trip up the Yarra, Dave Dallwitz, Graeme Bell in Czechoslovakia in 1947.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Honored on the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2021 as a culturally significant film. Directed by Ray Manzarek, keyboardist in The Doors. Starring Dorothy Fujikawa (Manzrek's future wife of forty years) and Henry Crismonde. Impressionistic vignettes of a jazz musician and a young art student's relationship, as he avoids commitment. Features Whiskey A Go Go on the Sunset Strip and a brief appearance by Jim Morrison of The Doors.