Mark Stryker is a journalist, author and filmmaker. He is also a co-producer of “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit”.

The 1959 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day, screening on August 23 at the New York Public Library, is considered one of the first music festival films. Still from Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1959) ...

In 1994, director Jean Bach gave us "A Great Day in Harlem," a one-hour documentary that peels back the remarkable story behind Art Kane’s legendary 1958 photograph of jazz legends gathered on a ...

On Monday the Utah Jazz released the first of six trailers promoting an upcoming documentary that explores the past, present and future of the team. Currently in production, “Note Worthy: 50 Seasons ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Utah Jazz are preparing to roll out a documentary that will take fans down memory lane. On Saturday, the franchise will show 'Note Worthy: 50 Seasons of Jazz Basketball' at ...

“If you invest in public school music education, you can change the world. We know that in Detroit because that’s what we did.” That’s Mark Stryker, writer and co-producer of the documentary “The Best ...

A documentary covering the life and work of Alabama's most singular musician will have a national debut next year.

Later today, the Cannes Film Festival will reverberate with the sound of one of America’s great jazz singers. An exclusive screening of Sloane: A Jazz Singer will take place this afternoon at the ...

his Thursday, Jan. 16, NOT NOT JAZZ, a documentary chronicling the musical career of Medeski Martin & Wood, is set to premiere at DCTV-NY’s Firehouse Cinema in New York, with special guests, including ...

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Local fans invited to be the first to watch the film during a free-to-attend debut screening at Delta Center on August 10; Q&A with the documentary’s director and several alumni participants to ...

Yesterday, I found a soulful documentary at YouTube from 2007 on the jazz organ directed by Jesse Fankushen. A lot of Hammond B3 cats are here—some I've never seen before on film, including Leon ...