加拿大新锐导演罗伯特·布德里奥和 《爱在黎明破晓时》男星伊桑·霍克携手合作的《生为蓝调》，跳脱传统传记电影的钻研考究，在虚实互映的构组拼贴中，重现爵士乐手查特·贝克充满传奇色彩的戏剧一生。

The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball .
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New Orleans but played from the beginning by musicians of every color, jazz celebrates all Americans at their best.
Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and women who made the music: Louis Armstrong, the fatherless waif whose unrivaled genius helped turn jazz into a soloist's art and influenced every singer, every instrumentalist who came after him; Duke Ellington, the pampered son of middle-class parents who turned a whole orchestra into his personal instrument, wrote nearly two thousand pieces for it, and captured more of American life than any other composer. Bix Beiderbecke, the doomed cornet prodigy who showed white musicians that they too could make an important contribution to the music; Benny Goodman, the immigrants' son who learned the clarinet to help feed his family, but who grew up to teach a whole country how to dance; Billie Holiday, whose distinctive style routinely transformed mediocre music into great art; Charlie Parker, who helped lead a musical revolution, only to destroy himself at thirty-four; and Miles Davis, whose search for fresh ways to sound made him the most influential jazz musician of his generation, and then led him to abandon jazz altogether. Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Artie Shaw, and Ella Fitzgerald are all here; so are Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and a host of others.
But Jazz is more than mere biography. The history of the music echoes the history of twentieth-century America. Jazz provided the background for the giddy era that F. Scott Fitzgerald called the Jazz Age. The irresistible pulse of big-band swing lifted the spirits and boosted American morale during the Great Depression and World War II. The virtuosic, demanding style called bebop mirrored the stepped-up pace and dislocation that came with peace. During the Cold War era, jazz served as a propaganda weapon—and forged links with the burgeoning counterculture. The story of jazz encompasses the story of American courtship and show business; the epic growth of great cities—New Orleans and Chicago, Kansas City and New York—and the struggle for civil rights and simple justice that continues into the new millennium.
Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, some never before published, this book, like the music it chronicles, is an exploration—and a celebration—of the American experiment.

2023 anime film directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa

20世纪60年代，战后经历了大萧条和经济飞速的发展，日本全国上下涌动着一股躁动而狂热的气息。就在某一年的夏天，于时代似乎全然脱节的高中生西见薰默默地从横须贺转学来到了长崎县的一个普通小镇。他相貌俊朗，家境优渥，学业出众，并且弹得一手好琴，但是薰自幼无法与他人长久对视，否则就会心因性引起呕吐。在新的学校，他结识了开朗的班长迎律子及其青梅竹马——不良少年川渕千太郎。性格全然不同的三个青年男女，却因灵动自如的爵士乐走到了一起。爵士乐为他们的青春时代涂抹了浓厚而艳丽的色彩，也为少男少女们留下久久难忘的回忆……
本片根据小玉ユキ的同名漫画原著改编。