Whiplash (2014), La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998), Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959), Song of the Thin Man (1947), A Great Day in Harlem (1994), A Tuba to Cuba (2018), American Pop (1981), Ragtime (1981) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jazz Musician movies.
Storyline: Peter, a WW II 'displaced person' about to be deported jumps ship in New York harbor in an effort to find an ex-G.I named Tom whom he helped during the war and can prove Peter's right to legal entry in the United States. It is a race against time for if he can't Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship. His quest leads him to befriending Maggie, a down-on-her-luck factory worker whom he rejuvenates through his good faith; a visit to a jazz club where Shorty Rogers and his band and trombonist Jack Teagarden are playing, and an interlude with a good- hearted burlesque dancer, Tanya Zakoyla, takes him to her mother's home for food and rest. The climax comes at dawn in the United Nations building (the "glass wall" of the title) where he goes to plead his case and that of all displaced persons.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: illegal alien, veteran, fugitive, factory worker, inspector, jazz musician, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarizes music from a voodoo ceremony; a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: fortuneteller, passenger, architect, doctor, vampire, jazz musician, art critic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike the U.S. at the time, jazz musicians are celebrated, and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian and Connie, who are vacationing in France, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to the U.S. with them or stay in Paris for the freedom it allows them. Ram, who wants to be a serious composer, finds Paris too exciting and is reluctant to give up his music for a relationship, and Eddie wants to stay for the city's more tolerant racial atmosphere.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: jazz musician, tourist, expatriate, love interest, friend, emotional, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success, but fame and fortune go to his head and threaten to destroy their relationship and his career.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: singer, jazz musician, roommate, old flame, agent, hypochondriac, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: U.S.Security Investigation Division chief Paul Reagan (Richard Denning) assigns John Williams (John Ireland) to hunt down a subversive group that has been smuggling A-bomb parts into the United States in specially designed cases. Williams traces the ring to Marseilles, France, where he meets Margo Wayne (Suzanne Dalbert) at a waterfront café and discovers she is part of the plot. When recalled by Reagan, Williams is informed that he has been engaged in a "war games" security check to test America's atomic defense, but he proves to Reagan that enemy agents are actually using the "war games" as a front to smuggle an A-bomb into the country.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, chief, jazz musician, friend, wife, frenchman, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary rock'n'roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her step mother, who is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of one of the strippers from the dance hall across the street, she investigates and uses Nichole's sordid past to embarrass her father. Meanwhile Jenny attracts the lecherous eye of Kenny, the owner of the dance hall.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: teen girl, beatnik, jazz musician, stepmother, dance hall girl, brash, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stonecold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.—McDonald, Bruce
Plot Keywords: jazz musician, wife, hitman, hedonistic, striking, party, sex trade ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two teens (Helen Shapiro, Craig Douglas) organize a jazz festival despite objections from the mayor (Felix Felton).
Plot Keywords: teenager, older man, older woman, townspeople, jazz musician, amusing, hilarious ...
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