Trumpet Player Movies

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see...

A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after...

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at...

Half a million people descend upon a tiny Serbian village for the 50th anniversary of the world's largest trumpet festival. Brasslands chronicles the...

Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate...

A native of Wilmington, Delaware, jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown made an outstanding and influential contribution to music. In an era when many...

A Japanese trumpet player on a cultural pilgrimage to discover New York City jazz experiences a hell of a night after being lost in Brooklyn.

A film grotesque whose protagonist is a poor clerk lost in the modern world. He buys a trumpet to express his personality via music.

A trumpeter returns to his town for his grandfather's funeral.

On stage before a show, a trumpet player dives back into his memories of a sinking during which he was saved by Jazz.

For 35 years, Jan Allan played the same trumpet, a Bach bought in New York in 1965. And he had intended to play it until the very last note. But then...