The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story

Top 3 Billed Cast

Count Basie
Count Basie

Self

Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner

Self

Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Loading Trailer Videos...
Loading Photos
Photo Type :Total items

Similar Movies

The Blues Brothers
77%

The Blues Brothers(en)

1980-06-16

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

CMC Teen Jazz Orchestra: Cultivating respect and self expression through music
0%

CMC Teen Jazz Orchestra: Cultivating respect and self expression through music(en)

CMC’s visionary leaders and artists to celebrate one of San Francisco’s most-revered and longest-running community arts programs.

Bill Evans Time Remembered
67%

Bill Evans Time Remembered(en)

2015-11-01

A biographical film featuring the music and times of Bill Evans with interviews from Tony Bennett, Jack Dejohnette, Billy Taylor, Paul Motian, Jon Hendricks, Orin Keepnews, Bobby Brookmeyer, Pat Evans and more, including family and friends who knew Bill Evans well.

Sweet and Lowdown
68%

Sweet and Lowdown(en)

1999-12-03

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Country's Family Reunion 2: Volume One
50%

Country's Family Reunion 2: Volume One(en)

2012-06-07

After the success of the first Country’s Family Reunion, we had to go back and do it all over again! This series includes Box Car Willie, Leroy Van Dyke, Bobby Lord, Stan Hitchcock, Stonewall Jackson and many more!

Köln 75
78%

Köln 75(en)

2025-03-13

Behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn’t happen, and how one formidable German teenager, Vera Brandes, breaks every boundary to set the conditions for the creation of a masterpiece. Vera, still in high school when she started producing and promoting music concerts in Cologne, puts everything on the line to put on this show. But Vera believes in the power of music, and she’s never seen anyone play like Keith Jarrett before.

Ray
75%

Ray(en)

2004-10-29

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

Eastwood Symphonic
70%

Eastwood Symphonic(en)

2023-09-05

Bassist and composer Kyle Eastwood reunites his quintet with the Orchestre National de Lyon to pay tribute to the career of his father, legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, in a concert combining jazz, classical music and cinema, held at the auditorium of the Orchestre National de Lyon on October 19, 2022.

You, the Living
71%

You, the Living(sv)

2007-09-21

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

Nelly Don the Musical Movie
90%

Nelly Don the Musical Movie(en)

2023-09-29

Nelly Don the Musical Movie is a true Kansas City story about Nelly Don, a trailblazer who ignited a fashion revolution in the early 1900s to become a global sensation. Yet on the coattails of her success, drama ensues from an abusive husband and affair with a US Senator to the fake adoption of her biological son and her mobster-linked abduction. History comes alive with music, propelling the sensational story of her meteoric rise to fame in the fashion industry.

Space Is the Place
59%

Space Is the Place(en)

1974-11-01

Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himself "the alter-destiny", meets with inner-city youths and battles with the devil himself to save the black race.

New York, New York
66%

New York, New York(en)

1977-06-21

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.

Glenn Fredly: The Movie
68%

Glenn Fredly: The Movie(id)

2024-04-25

Starting from the determination and great desire to create a music concert to embrace peace in Ambon City, Glenn ultimately gave up all his income to hold the concert.

'Round Midnight
71%

'Round Midnight(en)

1986-09-23

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

The Glenn Miller Story
69%

The Glenn Miller Story(en)

1954-01-04

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.

Boléro
65%

Boléro(fr)

2024-03-06

Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.

Daybreak Express
73%

Daybreak Express(en)

1953-01-01

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

Buster Williams Bass to Infinity
0%

Buster Williams Bass to Infinity(en)

2019-11-12

Imagine hanging out with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, hearing them jam together, trading riffs, then riffing with words and trading stories. Bird and Diz are gone, but giants still walk among us. One of those giants is Buster Williams. Buster has played with everyone - Miles, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Art Blakey, and on. In this intimate portrait, Buster trades stories, and plays, with some of the world's greatest musicians - Benny Golson, Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride and others, and takes us on a journey through his life, legacy, and America's greatest art form - the truly universal music called Jazz.

Moor Mother: Jazz Codes
52%

Moor Mother: Jazz Codes(en)

2022-07-01

Poet, musician, visual artist, and Afrofuturist Moor Mother roams a hallucinatory Mojave Desert alone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Moor Mother visits the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra HQ and plays with jazz luminaries and elders, including Henry “The Skipper” Franklin, Michael Session, and Maia.

Recommendations Movies

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
77%

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1(en)

2010-11-17

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
72%

Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold(en)

2018-01-31

Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang meet up with Batman and other friends to defeat evil villains and save the day.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
77%

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(en)

2002-11-13

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.

Iron Man
77%

Iron Man(en)

2008-04-30

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

Men in Black II
64%

Men in Black II(en)

2002-07-03

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
79%

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(en)

2001-11-16

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

Ice Age
74%

Ice Age(en)

2002-03-14

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
73%

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them(en)

2016-11-16

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.

Inkheart
63%

Inkheart(en)

2008-12-11

The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.

Monsters, Inc.
78%

Monsters, Inc.(en)

2001-11-01

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.

Little Fockers
57%

Little Fockers(en)

2010-12-21

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.

Mission: Impossible
70%

Mission: Impossible(en)

1996-05-22

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

X-Men: First Class
73%

X-Men: First Class(en)

2011-06-01

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

Ghostbusters II
66%

Ghostbusters II(en)

1989-06-16

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
77%

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(en)

2007-07-08

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students to defend themselves against the dark arts.

Oppenheimer
81%

Oppenheimer(en)

2023-07-19

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

The Impossible
74%

The Impossible(en)

2012-09-09

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

Barbie in the Nutcracker
69%

Barbie in the Nutcracker(en)

2001-09-30

"Barbie" stars as Clara in this animated retelling of the classic Christmas ballet, complete with Tchaikovsky soundtrack and ballet choreography.