Count Basie Movies

When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons Maximilian and Rupert. As he slaves away...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerry Lewis

Documentary film detailing the history of Kansas City jazz.

Genre: Music

Cast: Count Basie

The concert captured on William "Count" Basie's entry in the "must-own" audio/video Jazz Icons series comes from the vaults of Swedish Television....

Genre: Music

Cast: Count Basie

Originally broadcast on CBS April 11, 1976, under the title THE ORIGINAL ROMPIN' STOMPIN' HOT AND HEAVY, COOL AND GROOVE ALL-STAR JAZZ SHOW, this...

Genre: Music

Cast: Stan Getz

New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Kerouac

The two musical masters swing out.

Genre: Music

Cast: Ella Fitzgerald

Count Basie does a little rhyming rapping before going into this Benny Goodman instrumental composition. While he's playing, plenty of couples are...

Genre: Music

Cast: Count Basie

Though it was taped 16 years after the first A Man And His Music special, this final installment continues to uphold the high standards of the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Sinatra

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Terry

Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival...

Genre: Music

Cast: Count Basie

Count Basie Orchestra's "Take Me Back, Baby".

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Cast: Count Basie

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lionel Hampton

Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith David

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ole Olsen

Crime comedy.

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Baskett

During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Louis Armstrong

Count Basie and His Orchestra playing us a boogie.

Genre: Music

Cast: Count Basie

Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jon Hamm

The Rat Pack -- Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin -- in their only joint television performance. This special was televised via...

Genre: Music

Cast: Johnny Carson

Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ray Charles

Told in Count Basie's own words, this biography sheds light on both the professional and the private life of the world-famous bandleader and pianist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Count Basie

‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Billie Holiday

Jazz legend Count Basie and His Orchestra performs a concert at New York's Carnegie Hall, with guests Sarah Vaughn, Tony Bennett and George Benson.

Genre: Music

Cast: Count Basie

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Tissot

Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet. From the Cinema Apart Collection.

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank 'Sugar Chile' Robinson

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley...

Genre: Western

Cast: Cleavon Little

In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Lerokourez

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Louis Armstrong

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

Mantan Moreland hosts a series of filmed song, dance and band numbers by various artists, mostly released previously as individual "soundies".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Count Basie