Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can’t…

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude…

The history of New York City’s Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.

Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old avenue child when she received a expertise contest in 1934 on the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Inside months she was a star. Over the subsequent…

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his group play nightly in a seedy speakeasy before a racketeer attempts to liquefy them in exchange for security.