BLUEPRINT

Belgian jazz is enjoying a renaissance, driven by artists mixing jazz and electronic music. Around the Volta in Brussels, groups like Echt! and Tukan...

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label...

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

Elijah Jamal Balbed grew up in Washington DC in the midst of one of its most difficult eras, as its identity was being tested. As the city changed...

Legendary Brazilian composer and singer Antônio Carlos Jobim delivers a masterful performance at the world famous Montreal Jazz Festival in...

Jutta Hipp defied the odds and made it to the heart of the male-dominated jazz scene in 1950s New York.

A Song For My Father is a six-minute poetic documentary that examines grief and the complicated relationship we develop with the things that once...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injustices of racial segregation while on the road. The...

Fictional film with documentary elements about a jazz musician in Berlin.

Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.