Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

as Self - Musician (archive footage)

An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz...

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Take Your Pills

as Self (archive footage)

In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a...

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Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

as Self

Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the...

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Charlie Parker: Bird Songs

as Self - Subject (archive footage)

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie...

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Improvisation

as Self

An improvised jazz session with some of the greats from the 1950s era including Ella Fitzgerald.

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Bird: Not Out Of Nowhere

as Self - Archival Footage

Kansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird”...

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Improvisation

as Self

Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in...

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The Harlem Renaissance

as Self (archive footage)

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the...

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Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker

as Charlie Parker

A documentary about the legendary Jazz player Charlie (Bird) Parker.

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