Swing Music Movies

Presenting the world's greatest jazz singer accompanied by The Tommy Flanagan Trio.

A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.

Set in 1947, Knights of Swing is a feature film that chronicles a group of young jazz musicians whose dream is to form a “really swingin’...

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss...

During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're told they're needed at home more than in the...

The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band during its sunset years: 87-year-old Al Casey, who had worked closely with Fats Waller throughout the 1930s; guitarist...

At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be...

The Modernaires sing "Juke Box Saturday Night".

Sara and Alberto, who in their youth made music for love, with the passage of time are besieged by boredom, they will look for more spice in their...

Django Reinhardt's music still looms as the standard to be attained some 50 years after his death.