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486) We are
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A career-changing album from musician and activist Jon Batiste celebrates Black American culture and music while exploring themes of lineage, authenticity, excellence, and evolution. This album is about honoring roots and traditions while looking forward to the future and constantly evolving.
487) The Jazz singer
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A Jewish cantor's son defies his father to pursue a career in popular music.
488) Whiplash
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Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East Coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...
489) Love me or leave me
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Jazz age singing sensation Ruth Etting had it all, but it took more than talent to make it big. Her rise to fame at the hands of her Chicago gangster boyfriend turned her life off stage into a world of fear and abuse.
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Explores in depth the significant cultural and musical influences Miller experienced as a teenager in Fort Morgan, Colorado from 1918-1921. Other published works about Miller focus on his years of big band fame or his mysterious disappearance over the English Channel during World War II, bypassing his high school years. This film, based on fresh research, fills the historical gap and reveals that Glenn Miller's experience in the small rural town...
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Explores in depth the significant cultural and musical influences Miller experienced as a teenager in Fort Morgan, Colorado from 1918-1921. Other published works about Miller focus on his years of big band fame or his mysterious disappearance over the English Channel during World War II, bypassing his high school years. This film, based on fresh research, fills the historical gap and reveals that Glenn Miller's experience in the small rural town...
493) Oh, play that thing
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"Two years after walking out of Dublin with little more than the boots on his feet, Henry Smart has tossed his passport into New York Harbor and reinvented himself as an American. With a well-cut suit and a pearl gray fedora, Henry is by turns a marketing impresario, jazz enthusiast, and partner in crime as he skips from New York to Chicago and back again, only steps ahead of the death warrant that followed him across the Atlantic. At once a history...
494) Latin music USA
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"'Latin music USA' highlights the great American music created by Latinos, and celebrates the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. It's a fresh take on American musical history, reaching across five decades to portray the rich mix of sounds created by Latinos and embraced by all." -- Container.
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