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Three individuals, a man and two women, seated in a car.
Review

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – a sprawling geopolitical tapestry

by Phil Concannon

Johan Gri­mon­prez’s doc­u­men­tary explores the cir­cum­stances that led two Amer­i­can jazz musi­cians to crash the UN Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil in protest against the mur­der of Con­golese leader Patrice Lumumba.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Silhouetted figure playing trumpet on stage, with dramatic lighting and shadows.
Festivals

A Jazzman’s Blues – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Tyler Per­ry tries his hand at seri­ous-mind­ed film­mak­ing with this over­wrought Deep South melodrama.
A bald man with glasses wearing a blue jacket, appearing deep in thought.
Interviews

Terence Blanchard on composing the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s career

by Kambole Campbell

The leg­endary jazz musi­cian and two-time Oscar nom­i­nee shares his cre­ative process.
A man in a "Night Moves" jumper and a woman in a yellow jacket having a conversation.
Incoming

Todd Haynes will direct Michelle Williams in a film about Peggy Lee

by Charles Bramesco

Bil­lie Eil­ish is also report­ed to be star­ring in the director’s upcom­ing biopic of the Amer­i­can jazz singer.
Crowd of people in a public place, some wearing hats and glasses, with a character from the Pixar film 'Soul' in the foreground.
Review

Soul

by Hannah Strong

Jamie Foxx plays a jazz musi­cian attempt­ing to return to the land of the liv­ing in Pixar’s lat­est ani­mat­ed spectacle.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A woman with curly dark hair wearing a white flower in her hair and a pearl necklace, singing passionately into a microphone.
Review

Billie

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

The sto­ry of one of Jazz’s bright­est and most trag­ic stars is brought to life in this engag­ing documentary.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A man in glasses plays a piano in a dimly lit room with colourful lights.
Festivals

Soul – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Jamie Foxx is a jazz musi­cian reck­on­ing with the after­life in Pixar’s best film in quite some time.
Two people, an African-American man with a beard and a Caucasian woman with curly hair, sitting close together in a dimly lit room.
Not Movies

The Eddy review – A haunting melody that quickly fades

by Charles Bramesco

Damien Chazelle’s eight-part Paris jazz dra­ma scarce­ly miss­es a note, but we’ve heard this tune before.
Group of scantily clad women in a 1950s burlesque-style performance.
In Praise Of

Milk bars, jazz and showgirls: The intoxicating world of Expresso Bongo

by Anna Cale

Six­ty years on, Val Guest’s delight­ful­ly murky musi­cal satire retains a defi­ant­ly British sensibility.
Three men, one elderly and bald, another wearing glasses, seated around a piano in black and white.
In Praise Of

The story of Duke Ellington’s Anatomy of a Murder score

by Adam Scovell

Otto Preminger’s 1959 court­room dra­ma was the first Hol­ly­wood movie to use an African-Amer­i­can composer.