Bandleader Filmes

This one-reel musical short, part of the WB/Vitaphone Melody Master series, features the music of trumpet-player and orchestra leader Henry Busse and...

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...

Documentary on Frank Zappa.

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...

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

In a nightclub setting, Bob Crosby and His Orchestra play five numbers, as young couples dance in front of the bandstand, in contrasting styles...

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,...

In this MGM Miniature Musical, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.