The films
Watch the stories.
Short documentary films about the musicians behind this music, told with real archival photographs and the voices of the records themselves.
Artist stories
James Tatum: The Teacher Who Wrote a Jazz Mass
The Man Who Papered Chicago With the Cosmos
Mor Thiam: The Drummer Dunham Brought From Senegal
Alice Coltrane: The Ashram Tapes
Doug Carn: The Demo the Majors Rejected Became Spiritual Jazz History (Infant Eyes, 1971)
Salah Ragab: The Army Major Who Built Egyptian Jazz
Horace Tapscott: Not for Sale — The Story of the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra
The Shocking Truth About Bobby Brown's Musical Genius
He Walked Away From Fame and Found Something Deeper: The Ira Sullivan Story
Labels and scenes
Black Jazz Records: The Label Gene Russell Built (Full Documentary)
The Detroit Label That Tried to Own Everything: The Strata Records Story
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Clips and premieres also appear on the Spiritual Jazz Universe YouTube channel and the Facebook page.