JazzTown - Now Available on AppleTV+ (4k), Amazon Prime, Google Play, and Vudu (4K) and on Vimeo - JazzTown is the award-winning music documentary by Executive Producer and Director Ben Makinen hailed as, “the best music documentary to have come out of Colorado - ever!”
Executive Producer/Director Ben Makinen has released the action-packed short film Who Killed Jazz in reaction to petitions from jazz musicians to have a film made illuminating the opressive socio-economic forces keeping working musicians at the poverty level.
~ Dianne Reeves, 5-time GRAMMY® Award winner for Best Jazz Vocalist
~ US Senator John Hickenlooper (former Governor of Colorado & jazz club owner)
~ Ron Miles, trumpet (Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, Ginger Baker)
~ Charlie Hunter, guitar-bass (Snarky Puppy, Christian McBride, Stanton Moore)
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Ben Makinen and David Booker. The Dynamic Duo's last gig together at the Golden Moon Speakeasy. RIP David Booker, friend and mentor 1947-2023.

Transgenre Vocalist Veronica Swift, Producer/Director Ben Makinen(JazzTown) and Drummer Brian Viglione (Dresden Dolls) On Set of documentary film We Are Here: Women In Jazz

Blues Vocalist Erica Brown and Director Producer Ben Makinen (JazzTown; Who Killed Jazz; We Are Here: Women In Jazz)

Record Producer Monty Guy and JazzTown Producer Director Ben Makinen We Are Here Women In Jazz 65th Grammy Awards

In Your Face Film Company Bmakin Film, JazzTown, Anthropocene, The Mission Director Producer Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary Action Narrative Shorts

JazzTown Movie Poster: Charles Burrell with Laurels. Feat Fred C Larkin and Ben Makinen Photography.

Best Director Ben Makinen, for JazzTown, Bmakin Film 2021. Awarded by SanDiego Movie Awards; Award of Prestige.

Ben Makinen wins Best Director Award from San Diego Movie Awards for the Documentary film JazzTown, 2021.

JazzTown T-Shirt avail from Bmakin Film. Model is Dian Marhaeni/President of the Bali Chapter of the IMFA

Bmakin Film's JazzTown features photos by famous jazz photographer William P Gottlieb. Here is Dizzy Gillespie in 1947.

Bmakin Film's JazzTown features photos by famous jazz photographer William P Gottlieb. Here is 52nd Street, NYC.

Bmakin Film's JazzTown features photos by famous jazz photographer William P Gottlieb. Here is a New York City midtown club in the 1950s.

Ayo Awosika, vocalist and band leader, is featured in Bmakin Film: JazzTown, and Who Killed Jazz, directed by Ben Makinen.

JazzTown and Who Killed Jazz, two films by Ben Makinen and Bmakin Film include photos and film of vocalist Linda-Theus Lee.

Bmakin Film: Who Killed Jazz features photos from the 1940s and 50s: this one by Gordon Parks: Students in Library at Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida

Bmakin Film: Who Killed Jazz, a new short documentary with featuring photos like this: Woman working on WWII "Vengeance" Dive Bomber, by Alfred T Palmer, 1943.

New JazzTown Bmakin Film Coffee Mugs by Director Ben Makinen featuring Charles Burrell Available on Ben's Merch Page

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