"As three lost souls search for love, music, and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia ... they will discover life's endless possibilities over the course of one magical night"-- Madeleine is a rebellious nine-year-old-- and an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the death of her mother and caring for her father, she doggedly searches for Philadelphia's legendary jazz club The Cat's Pajamas, where she's determined to make her on-stage...

The story of jazz musician, Buddy Bolden, and New Orleans in 1900.

A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional...

Teen activist and trailblazer Jazz Jennings--named one of "The 25 most influential teens" of the year by Time--shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.

10 episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence

Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances

""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical piano pieces he was trained to play to the toe-tapping swing...