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I recently bought this Miles Davis Story DVD and it was pretty cool. I was wondering what jazz movies and documentaries have you all seen and would recommend.

I've seen Bird and Kansas City(kinda jazz related) and of course the Ken Burns documentaries and a slew of others i cant think of. I want to see Round Midnight though, i cant believe i havent seen it yet sweatdrop

Speaking of movies and jazz, here's something you ought to all check out. If you have a good internet connection there is a full hour and fourteen minute streaming real media concert of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band in decent resolution.

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

I highly recomend watching this, (and i don't know how much longer this will still be up) as there is some really great stuff on the video. The band is playing at the Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival

I forgot who the guitarist is but he sounded pretty good, and there's a latin drummer who joins the group. Very tight group.

For all you trombonists, Jazz trombone extraordinaire Scott Whitfield is sitting in with the group, and plays a solo on the last number of the concert. Awesome stuff. Andy Martin also has some killer solos too.

Trumpet players! The incredible Wayne Bergeron is featured in the second set. good stuff.

Saxaphones, sorry but Eddie Daniels could not join the band on this concert, but there is still plenty of awesome saxaphone action!

For those of you who missed this incredible band play at the IAJE conference, among their other recent gigs, Don't Miss ThiS VidEo!

there's some other cool movies on the site as well.

i saw this thing on louis armstrong in 6th grade, and it was pretty interesting, but i don't know what it was called sweatdrop

I actually got around to watching Round Midnight the music is good but it's not what i expected. All in all an awsome movie with cool music and gives a different point of view.

Ray was a very good movie i nevere realized he had a bad drug problem.

Oh i forgot all about Mo Better Blues!

cool sounds like something i should hunt for, and you should watch Ray it's very good.

Apparently, there's a movie out there somewhere called Straight No Chaser that's sort of odd. Apparently, they followed Thelonius Monk around for a day and just shot footage of whatever he did. Never seen it anywhere.