Bandleader Movies

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others...

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life an...

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she...

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing tw...

The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studi...

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks...

A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Ka...

A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete list...

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives featurin...

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the Fillmor...

His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic music...

This musical short salutes bandleader B.A. Rolfe on his 40th anniversary in show business.

For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, c...