Orem Library

1961-present: Jazz succumbs to rock 'n' roll. Or does it? A new generation of musicians, led by Wynton Marsalis, creates its own imprint by turning to jazz's great traditions. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.

Beginnings to 1917: Born amidst African-Americans in 1890s New Orleans, jazz blends every kind of music resounding in the streets of the nation's most cosmopolitan city. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.

A look at Sun Records, a Nashville company that defined American music. Part of the series American Masters, this program includes rare footage of numerous performers including Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Jerry Lee Lewis, and more. Interviews with the company's founder and an emotional reunion of old Mississippi Delta musicians are also featured.

For hundreds of millions of Sufi followers worldwide, music is at the heart of their tradition and a way of getting closer to God. From the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey to the qawwali music of Pakistan, Sufism has produced some of the world's most spectacular music celebrated by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Dalrymple's film traces the shared roots of Christianity and Islam in the Middle East and discovers Sufism to be a peaceful, tolerant and pluralistic...

Documentary on the history of Gospel music from its roots in West Africa to today. Includes performance footage.

A little female character called Koko represents the muse of music and dances and clowns her way through a breathless, animated short-history of western music from the beginning of time to punk. It’s an ideal introduction to a range of musical styles including pan flutes, baroque, romantic, circus music, jazz, French popular and opera.

Director and piano player Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage in addition to interviews and performances.

H.P. Lovecraft was the forefather of modern horror fiction having inspired such writers as Stephen King, Robert Bloch, and Neil Gaiman. The influence of his Cthulhu mythos can be seen in film, games, music, and pop culture in general. But what led an Old World, xenophobic gentleman to create one of literature's most far-reaching mythologies? What attracts even the minds of the 21st century to these stories of unspeakable abominations and cosmic gods?...

Looks at the jazz music scene today. Through interviews, performance footage, and the voices of the musicians themselves, we explore this music and the divergent influences that are shaping the world of jazz at the beginning of the 21st century.

In 1972 Mark Moskowitz read a New York Times book review of "The stones of summer" by Dow Mossman, a title which, later in Moskowitz's life would later become an object of obsession. Though he shelved the book for 25 years, Moskowitz finally read it and was amazed at its ingenuity. He was shocked that its one-time author never penned another book. Determined to solve the mystery, Moskowitz documented his research project in finding the forgotten author...