Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007), Blues in the Night (1941), Billie (2020), The Jazz Singer (1953), Billionaire Boys Club (2018), Bombay Velvet (2015), Blueberry Hill (1988), Shadows (1958) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jazz Singer movies.
Storyline: A documentary look at the improvised life of Anita O'Day (1919-2006), singer and stylist whose timing, phrasing, interpretations, and unique sound put her among the finest vocalists of jazz. Interviews with her late in life are interspersed with archival footage of performances and old interviews as well as with comments by friends, arrangers, critics, and other musicians. She talks about singing without a uvula (sing eighth notes), of jail time for a marijuana arrest, of taking and kicking heroin, of finally making money after appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival, of loss, of a broken arm that almost cost her life, and of living in 4/4 time, one day at a time, smiling.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: jazz singer, friend, critic, musician, inspiring, engaging, chicago ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play 'blues' music. The dedication isn't paying off in money and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend a gangster named Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real-good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that 'Character' is about to have a baby, he returns to her. "Jigger" tries to make Kay the band's singer and, when this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing to show for him except a nervous breakdown.Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him and plans to take back up with "Jigger", who knows better but just can't help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two-passenger crash. The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: convict, jazz musician, jazz singer, femme fatale, pianist, dark, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. However, Linda's book was never finished and the tapes never heard -- until now.
Plot Keywords: jazz singer, journalist, friend, character, confident, passionate, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jerry dreams of becoming a famous jazz singer, but to accomplish that, he must defy his father, a Jewish Cantor who opposes such a dream as a future for a son of his.
Plot Keywords: jew, jazz singer, father, cantor, girlfriend, mother, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a 'get-rich-quick' scam that turns deadly.
Plot Keywords: young man, businessman, con man, shocking, crafty, los angeles, get rich quick ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set against the backdrop of ambition, love, greed, and jazz - Bombay Velvet is the story of one ordinary man who goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a 'Big Shot'. Jazz clubs, a passionate love story, a growing metropolis and a phenomenal hunger for a good life. Welcome to the City of Dreams. Welcome to Bombay Velvet.—PRC
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, jazz singer, boxer, club owner, wealthy man, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of a 16 year old girl and her repressive relationship with her mother against the backdrop of 1950's America.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, mother, jazz singer, teen boy, love interest, emotional, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two brothers (Hugh Hurd, Ben Carruthers) and a sister (Lelia Goldoni) live in fringe worlds in Manhattan.
Plot Keywords: trumpeter, jazz singer, white man, african-american, brother, boyfriend, cool ...
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