jazz

Lee, a jazz pianist, has to leave his band when he begins losing his hearing, but he meets a deaf saxophone player in a sign language class and together they form a snazzy new band.

Examines the possible origins of jazz, its variety, greatness, and individual artists.

At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects and her only escape is through her trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go.

Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.

An illustrated history of the origins and influences of jazz, from Africa to contemporary America.

Tells the story of how jazz composer and musician Duke Ellington, along with Billy Strayhorn, created his jazz composition based on Tchaikovsky's famous Nutcracker Suite ballet. Includes a CD.

An illustrated account of the childhood of jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in the early twentieth century.

Profiles eight country blues and ragtime musicians.

Discusses the individual achievements and collaboration of Miles Davis and John Coltrane as they influenced each other and changed the character of jazz and American culture, and covers the often silent off-stage friendship between the two musicians.