StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Jazz documentaries, part 2

This week, let's take a look at some more jazz documentaries, this time focusing on films that tell the stories of individual musicians. (You can see part one, published last week and featuring movies with more of a broad historical focus, here).

The first video in the embed window up top is The Wonderful World Of Louis Armstrong, which tells the story of the famed trumpeter (and the first great jazz soloist) and was released by the BBC in 1999.

After the jump, you can see Art Tatum - The Art Of Jazz Piano, a profile of the great pianist that was released in 1988.

That's followed by Earl "Fatha" Hines, a 1975 film about another influential figure in the development of jazz piano. It was shot at the Blues Alley nightclub in Washington DC for Britain's ITV television channel.

Next up is Let's Get Lost, a critically acclaimed 1988 film by director Bruce Weber about "the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker."

Then it's Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz, a 1989 BBC film about the tenor saxophonist-turned-proprietor of London's most famous jazz club.

The penultimate video is Mal: A Portrait Of Mal Waldron, a 1997 film about the pianist who worked with some of the most important musicians and singers of his time, including Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Jackie McLean.

Last but not least, it's The Jazz Baroness, a 2009 biography of Pannonica de Koenigswarter, the British jazz fan and sometimes writer who famously befriended Thelonious Monk and was known as "the patron saint of bebop."

You can see the rest of today's videos after the jump...