Bob Fosse's self-critical and self-aggrandizing musical remains one of the most fascinating and entertaining autobiographies ever put on film. ‘Bitter Christmas’ Teaser: Pedro Almodóvar Returns to the ...

The musical genre is an undeniably important one, as far as cinematic history is concerned. After all, The Jazz Singer was a musical, and was the first part-talkie feature film to make an impact on ...

The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward ...

What led to the teaming of Beyoncé and jazz trumpet great Terence Blanchard for an operatically inspired Pepsi TV commercial in 2002? That was just two months before the release of her first solo ...

"The Jazz Singer" premiered Oct. 6, 1927. — -- It was an era that few of us would recognize today. It was the time of the “flapper girl.” Construction had just begun on Mount Rushmore and Calvin ...

Ken Burns' mammoth new TV series, Jazz, is an artistic triumph packed with expert insight, terrific visuals and fantastic music. Now, if he can just get a few million people to watch it. Even Burns, a ...

Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland to Italian immigrant parents. He is universally acknowledged as one of the great American film composers, and ...

The acclaimed filmmaker also discusses using music as “a historical agent” to investigate the dark colonial history of his native Belgium: "While politics is all about divide-and-conquer, it's the ...