But how would they portray jazz? With “Soul” (streaming on Disney+), the ... Mekado Murphy is a senior staff editor with a focus on movies coverage. He joined The Times in 2006.

Jamie Foxx plays a jazz musician in “Soul ... Tina Fey and Jamie Foxx star in the Pixar animated movie “Soul.” PIXAR I sound like a broken AirPod praising Pixar’s animation over ...

Pixar Animation’s next movie, Soul, follows Joe Gardner, a New York City elementary school music teacher who has long aspired to be a professional jazz pianist. When an accident on the eve of ...

More than any live-action movie, Soul manages to (literally) hit all the right notes when it comes to its portrayal of jazz. The painstaking practice required, the mechanics of improvisation ...

Midway through Soul, our hero, Joe — or, sort of Joe, but you’ll have to watch the movie to know what I mean ... Joe (voiced by Jamie Foxx) is a jazz pianist whose performance career ...

The very first seconds of Pixar’s new feature Soul, the cue card of the Disney castle, offers some of the best jazz ever heard in a Hollywood movie. The famous theme “When You Wish Upon a Star ...

“Soul” isn’t what most might expect from a big-studio, animated movie for kids ... Joe (voiced by Jamie Foxx), is a frustrated jazz musician-turned-teacher about to get his big break ...

In these movies, jazz is a challenge and an albatross. But in “Sylvie’s Love,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Soul,” the music is more a salve: a river of possibility running ...

"Soul" also marks the studio's first animated feature with a mostly Black cast. If you're up for the best animated movie of the year -- by a mile -- then watch the miracles Pixar dishes out with ...

If you loved the music and cool jazz scene in Disney and Pixar's movie Soul, you'll want to make a beeline to The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, which has been transformed into the film's Half ...

An exhibit based on one of Disney-Pixar's newest movies is coming to Kansas City Friday. "The Soul of Jazz: An American Adventure" based on Disney-Pixar's hit movie "Soul" will open at Kansas City ...