Paramount Headliner: Bob Crosby and His Orchestra

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Documentary on Frank Zappa.

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,...

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

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,...

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