Lester Young

Prominent jazz musicians of the 1940's get together for a rare filming of a jam session. (imdb)

Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just about every jazz musician at the time showed up for the photo shoot which took place in front of a brownstone near the 125th street station. The documentary compiles interviews of many of the musicians in the photograph to talk about the day of the photograph, and it shows film footage taken that day by Milt Hinton and his wife. (imdb)

This animated short was created by Lisze Bechtold while she was a student at the California Institute of the Arts' Experimental Animation program. The whimsical line-drawn animation follows a woman and her two cats engaging the world and the forces of nature.