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

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 ...

Today, in conjunction with the first Utah Jazz Decade Night celebration at Delta Center, SEG Media released the first of six trailers to preview Note Worthy: 50 Seasons of Jazz Basketball, a ...

It’s fair to say that — off the court, anyway — the Jazz pulled out all of the stops for the team’s 50th anniversary last season. The final aspect of the celebration? A 98-minute documentary called ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Jazz Age was a time of excess, creativity, and passion that lunged jazz music into the mainstream. It produced music icons like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whose innovative sounds advanced ...

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The late composer, musician and bandleader Duke Ellington once said, ''I contend that the Negro is the creative voice of America, IS creative America, and it was a happy day when the first unhappy ...

Despite its stature as one of the best concert documentaries and maybe the first, “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” was going to be lost to history. The 1959 film, directed by famed photographer Bert Stern and ...

Our jazz video showcase continues in vacation mode for another week, with six more full-length documentaries vying for your late-summer attention. First up is a concert film from the Jazz Icons DVD ...