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Jazz:
Australian travelogue with the Michaels family offering stereotypical
notions about blacks and music ("natural sense of rhythm")—program argues that jazz
originated in Africa in tribal music with emphasis on drum and vocal
rhythm—convincing thesis I'll
Sing Not Cry:
gorgeous Kodachrome color exploration of what makes the African
culture—stresses the singing of Africans—filmed among the Umbundu
people of Angola 12-25D Discovering
the Music of Africa: re West African
rhythm—especially Ghana—drums, bells, and rattles excellent color
BFA 8-1A Yonder
Come Day:
from Yale University classroom a Black woman performs and traces roots
of Afro-American folk music forms 12-4C African
Rhythms:
Firestone Rubber film re Liberian music and dance 8-5B Yes
Sir, Mr. Bones:
nostalgic old white men in blackface put on a minstrel show—feature
film from 1951 Minstrel
Days:
two copies of this 400' short—one with brown tint—from Olympic
Pictures in 1939 features Nina Mae McKinney with Delose Somers and his
band, the Eight Black Streaks, plus Scott & Whaley 8-7A Minstrel
Days:
Warners Bros. short from 1940 features story of "Jump Jim
Crow"—with Willie Best, scenes with Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson 8-7A When
Grandpa Was a Boy: white boys and girls put on a minstrel
show—much in blackface—in remembrance of the Hit parade of the gay
Nineties—racist 1950 Renewed 4-18B Minstrel
Melodies:
Benny Fields and Judy Clarke in blackface song and dance
short—1940s—has bizarre scene in which beautiful blonde woman and
white man in blackface touch and cuddle in love song 4-17D Hurdy
Gurdy:
traditional Dixieland music from Pete Lofthouse and His Second Story
Men—guest are Nappy Lamare, Bill Campbell, Paula Kelly—local KABC-TV
Los Angeles show in excellent color (1967) 12-25B New
Orleans Jazz:
host Vernon Cook takes viewers on an impressionistic tour of sites in
New Orleans where jazz was born, beginning in Storeyville in 1896
kinescope (1960s) 12-25B Swing
Into Spring:
NBC swing music festival aired 4/9/58—features Benny Goodman, Ella
Fitzgerald, Harry James, Red Norvo, Teddy Wilson, McGuire Sisters, Jo
Stafford. and others—First half is "best" songs from the
show compilation—including duped Goodman performance from feature film
Hollywood Hotel—Benny, Jo, Ella (scat version) sing "Gotta
Be This or That"—Second half is "not so great" portions
of the show including Texaco commercials—hosted by Dave Garroway good
dupe 20-9B The
Billy Daniels Show: premier telecast (10/5/52) The
Billy Daniels Show II: local Los Angeles program from late 1950s with
Benny Payne Trio—guests include George Jessel Duke Ellington/Ella
Fitzgerald: their appearance together on The Ed Sullivan Show
3/7/65 (dupe) 600' John Gunther's High Road III:
Benny Goodman in Holland
Gunther film of BG concert performance in Blokker in the Netherlands in
1959 12-25D The 20th Century: The
Jazz of Dave Brubeck (NEWS 118) Omnibus: "Dave
Brubeck" color/British TV (c. 1976) 20-3A March Of Dimes: Dave Brubeck
Quartet with Paul Desmond play jazz version of "Brother, Can You
Spare a Dime?" in pitch for March of Dimes—see 8.12 Public
Service Announcements Dave Brubeck: dupe of the two
tunes Brubeck Quartet provided for March of Dimes in 1951: 4-24B —Improvisational "The
Duke' —"Brother, Can You
Spare a Dime?" GOODYEAR
JAZZ CONCERT: British series from late 1950s offers jazz bands
in performances in color 1.
Louis Armstrong 2 Copies 12-25B and 12-4C 2.
Mike
Bryan—with Doc Severinsen, Georgie Auld 3.
Bobby Hackett 4.
Duke Ellington 5.
Eddie
Condon—with Wild Bill Davidson American Life Styles: "Louis
Armstrong" 12-7E Louis Armstrong: compilation
of various performances—titles as follows: 8-9B —"I'll Be Glad When
You're Dead" Soundie —"When It's Sleepy
Time Down South" Soundie —"Swinging or
Nothing" —"Shine" Soundie
from appearance on The Perry Como Show —"Mack the Knife" —"Kokomo," duet
with Perry Como Lionel Hampton: dupe of TV
kinescoped appearance by Hamp in 1960s 4-24C Judy Garland - Count Basie:
dupe of kinescoped segment from TV appearance in which Judy sings with
the Basie band— —"The Sweet
Sound" Judy —"Strike Up the
Band" Judy —"One O'Clock
Jump" instrumental —"I Can't Stop Loving
You" instrumental —"I've Got My Love to
Keep Me Warm" Judy Stars
on Parade:
Dumont network musical featuring the U.S. military with special guest
Sarah Vaughan (from the 1953-54 season) Alcoa Premiere VII: "Blues
for a Hanging" w/ Fred Astaire, Shelly Mann, Janis Paige,
Lurene Tuttle (12/27/62) Black Journal: "The
Black Cop" re New York City black policeman/a Kent Garrett
film from 1968 with jazz music soundtrack by John Coltrane Quartet Rhythm
and Blues Songs: dupes of mostly Blacks singing taken from
Official Films shorts and the feature film, Mr. Rock and Roll
with Alan Freed— 12-8E 1)
The Ink Spots, "The Gypsy" (1946) 2)
The Mills Brothers, "You Always Hurt the One
You Love" (1944) 3)
Nat King Cole Trio with Ida James, "Is You
Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby" (1944) 4)
Nat King Cole Trio, "Errand Boy for
Rhythm" (1946) 5)
11) Nat King Cole Trio: "This Is My Night to
Dream" Snader Telescription 1951 Count Basie:
BBC concert aired 9/8/66—Basie announces the tunes—the following
tunes are performed: —All of Me —Flight of the Floo Birds —Midnight Sun Never Sets —Blues for Eileen —Jumpin' a Woodside —I Needs to Be Be'd With —April in Paris —'Lil Darlin —Whirly Bird —One O'Clock Jump NEWS 370:
The Twentieth Century: "Duke Ellington Swings
through Japan" all jazz performance on U.S. State
Department Goodwill Tour (12/20/64) 12-25C The Round Table: Tribute
to Bix—color kinescope of WNET (New York City) local TV show
discussing last night's Carneige Hall concert in honor of Bix
Biederbecke—jazz ensemble in studio recreates Bix's sound (1975)
12-25C Rodgers
and Hart Today: program of the ABC Stage '67 series, this is a
musical salute to the compositions of Lorenz Hart and Richard
Rodgers-performers are Bobby Darin, Petula Clark, Diana Ross and The
Supremes, Mamas and the Papas, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Doddletown
Pipers, Peter Gennaro—musical director is Quincy Jones—runs gamut
from showtunes to rock and roll to jazz [song list in can] 3/2/67 20-9C Stage Show II:
Morey Amsterdam is guest comedic host—with Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Down
by the River Side"), flat Dick Haymes ("Let's Get Away from It
All" and "Carioca"), and medley with solos by Jimmy
Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey (1955) 8-9B Tonight Show X:
Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra perform 20 minute segment
from 1960s—Miller classics, but ends with smash version of "Mack
the Knife" 8-9B The
Swing' Singin' Years: Ronald Reagan hosts this swing music
retrospective sponsored by Ford Motors in 1960—performers as follows:
20-9C —Woody Herman, "Your
Father's Mustache" [Kansas City] —Ella Mae Morse with
Freddie Slack, "Cow Cow Boogie" —Freddie Martin,
"Tonight We Love" and with pianist Jack Fina"Bumble
Boogie" [Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles] —Jo Stafford, "The
Gentleman Is a Dope" and comedic hillbilly song "Timtayshun"
with Red Ingles' Natural Seven [done as radio broadcast with Ken
Carpenter announcing] —Eddy Howard,
"Helpless," "To Each His Own" [Aragon Ballroom,
Chicago] —Dinah Washington,
"What a Difference a Day Makes" and "Makin' Whoopee" —Louis Jordan and Tympany
Five, "Choo, Choo Ch'Boogie" —Charlie Barnet,
"Blues" —Vaughan Monroe and His
Orchestra, "Racing with the Moon" and "There, I've Said
It Again" —Stan Kenton, "Malaguena"
Music
of the 60s:
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra in a television concert—opens with
"Artistry in Rhythm"—followed by "Tico Tico" 1
hour kinescope V Room International
Jazz Festival: musical extravaganza in small village in Belgium
features Benny Goodman—from Bell Telephone Hour series color faded
20-8B The
World of Benny Goodman [NEWS 369]: NBC documentary re BG's goodwill trip
to bring American jazz and swing music to Moscow in 1961 20-8B On
the Road with Duke Ellington: gorgeous Technicolor print
of Bell Telephone Hour program from 1967 20-8B [The
Sights and Sounds of] New Orleans: jazz scene of Louisiana
city—Dixieland sounds from Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Preservation Hall
Jazz Band—interviews and music—Bell Telephone Hour series 1960s
color turned Bassey
and Basie:
Shirley Bassey sings with Count Basie and His orchestra in this 1967
musical hour from Four Star International 20-8B Operation
Entertainment: ABC television program
hosted by Dick Cavett at Fort Hood, Texas in 1967—segment features
Louis Armstrong All Stars—Louis sings and plays: 4-24C —"Sleepy Time Down
South" —"What a Wonderful
World" —"Hello, Dolly" THE
NEGRO IN ENTERTAINMENT:
hosted by Claude A. Barnett, Etta Moten Barnett, and Pittsburgh
Courier managing editor Bill Nunn—produced for Chesterfield
cigarettes —short musical excerpts include the following: —W.C. Handy (S) —Ethel Waters —Sugar Chile Robinson —Una Mae Carlisle —Duke Ellington —Louis Armstrong (S) —Bill Robinson —Fats Waller Electric
Showcase:
B&W kinescope segments from this TV show highlighting happenings at
the 1964 World's Fair—Gordon and Sheila McCray host—film includes:
8-9B —Africa pavillion dancers
from Guinea —Auto Thrill Show with men
standing atop automobiles and other car stunts —Al Hirt jazz
segment—plays in quartet outside on narrow bandstand above main
concourse Jazz
on a Summer's Day: Michelob sponsors this abbreviated version of
the Bert Stern's 86-minute-long and tasteless (too much audience
reaction, too much locale trivialities, not enough focus on
performers—music too often used as background for festival
incidentals!) 1960 documentary re the 1958 Newport Jazz
Festival—performers on this film include the following: 20-9B —Thelonious Monk —Commercial: Michelob —George Shearing Quintet in
Afro-Cuban instrumental —Dinah Washington sings
"All of Me" —Gerry Mulligan Quartet
with Art Farmer—instrumental —Chuck Berry, "Sweet
Little 16" —CommerciaL: Irish female
folk singer sings, then segue to beer pitch —Louis Armstrong, "Up
a Lazy River" —Armstrong with Jack
Teagarden, "Old Rockin' Chair" —Armstrong with Teagarden,
"When the Saints Go Marchin' In" —Mahalia Jackson, several
spirituals Garry
Moore Show VII:
Errol Garner appearance of Moore's evening show—he plays the
following: 4-24C —"Misty" (Moore
introduces Garner over this tune) —"Fly Me to the
Moon" —"Green Dolphin
Street" Dixieland
Jazz:
excerpted from You Asked For It program, this is reunion of
Dixieland greats (all white men!) who include Jack and Charlie Teagarden
1950s 4-24C The
Sound of Jazz:
from CBS Seven Lively Arts series in 1957—all stars gathering with
emphasis on the blues— performers are— [very good dupe] 12/8/57
16-1B —Henry "Red"
Allen Rex Stewart —Vic Dickenson Pee Wee
Russell —Coleman Hawkins Billie
Holiday —Jimmy Rushing Thelonius
Monk —Lester Young Gerry
Mulligan —Roy Eldridge Ben Webster —Milt Hinton Count Basie —etc., etc. Art
Ford Jazz Party:
Billie Holiday appears and sings the following songs: 8-8E —"Moaning Low" —"Don't Explain" —"When Your Lover Has
Gone" —"I'm Foolin'
Myself" —"Easy to
Remember" —"What a Little
Moonlight Can Do" Stars
of Jazz:
Charlie Barnet and Mel Torme appear on this jazz show originally aired
on ABC-TV—numbers include Torme: "Cross Your Fingers" and
"Looking at You" Barnet:
"Cherokee," "Bakiff," "Redskin Rhumba,"
"Lemon Twist," "Skyliner" very good dupe (5/5/58)
12-25C After
Hours:
William B. Williams' romanticized visit to late-night/early-morning New
York City jazz clubs—made for US television in 1961—performers are:
12-25C —Cozy Cole —Coleman Hawkins —Milt Hinton —Roy Eldridge —Johnny Guarnieri —Barry Galbraith Jazzboree:
Benny Carter in TV kinescope—entire film is a 10-minute jam on the
song "Honeysuckle Rose" 1950s Louis
Armstrong:
obituary newsreel footage and lengthy memories of Louis from Dixieland
jazzmen Teddy Buckner and Barney Bigard, plus critic Leonard Feather Louis
Armstrong 1:
Dixieland jazzman Teddy Buckner speaks about Louis—plays music too
(7/71) Louis
Armstrong 2:
trims of interviews with Teddy Buckner and Barney Bigard re Louis—reel
of stills (7/71) Louis
Armstrong 3:
inserts in which Buckner, Bigard, and critic Leonard Feather (?) explain
Louis Armstrong's place in the history of jazz Jazz
Alley:
NET jazz series features Art Hodes, Tony Parenti, J.C. Higgenbotham,
Eddie Condon—recreate Chicago jazz scene of 1920s The
Benny Goodman Show: presented live from Disneyland as installment of
Westinghouse Preview Theater—Goodman band plays "Let's
Dance," "Ridin' High," Stealing Apples," "You
Turned the Tables on Me," "That's a-Plenty," medley
(September Song, All the Things You Are, and Avalon), "Roll
'em," and "Good-Bye" —good dupe (9/15/61) 12-25C Chicago
And All That Jazz: installment of DuPont
Show Of The Week features salute to Chicago Jazz of the 1920s—with
the following jazz and blues stars: (11/26/61) 20-9C —Gene Krupa Bud Freeman Kid
Orey —Lil Armstrong Red Allen
Eddie Condon —PeeWee Russell Zutty
Singleton Joe Sullivan —Jimmy McPartland Meade Lux
Lewis Mae Barnes —Johnny St. Cyr Blossom
Seeley Milt Hilton —Buster Bailey Jack
Teagarden etc. Showtime
at the Apollo: 12-13C 6)
Sarah Vaughan, "These Things I'll Feel for a
Lifetime" (probably a Snader Tele-scription edited into this
program) 7)
Herb
Jeffries, "A Woman Is a Worrisome Thing" this is a Snader
Tele-scription from 1950—see Black Soundies in Non-TV Music listing 8)
Cab
Calloway, "The Calloway Boogie" (another Snader Telescription) Showtime
at the Apollo II: 12-25B 1)
Lionel Hampton, "Air Mail Special" jazz
performance flows into rhythm & blues saxophone battle 2)
Jonah Jones sings and plays trumpet with Cab
Calloway quintet, "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" 3)
Lionel Hampton, big band jazz arrangement Look
Up And Live:
CBS News religious series VI: "Jazz at the
Half Note" with Lennie Tristano Quintet featuring Lee
Konitz and Warne Marsh (8/9/64) Jazz
Usa:
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL: modern jazz performances by Cannonball Adderley,
Dakota Staton, Horace Silver Wyllis Conover hosts this USIS series of
films 12-25C Jazz:
TV show with Earl "Fatha" Hines and Coleman Hawkins—from
1965 with no other information available—excellent print 12-25C Jazz
625:
British jazz series from 1964-1965 12-25C 1.Buck
Clayton and Humphrey Lyttelton band 2.Art
Farmer Quartet 3.
Henry "Red' Allen 8-9B THE
BIG BANDS:
from 20th Century-Fox, this 1966 series offers half-hour big band
performances of 1940s swing as well as modern jazz of 1950s and 1960s
12-25B 1.
Duke Ellington I V-Room 2.
Duke Ellington II 3.
Si Zentner II 4.
Stan Kenton 5.
Claude Thornhill 6.
Ralph Marterie 7.
Lionel Hampton 8.
Tex Beneke 9.
Vaughan Monroe 10.
Ralph Flanagan 11.
Art Mooney 12.
Jimmy Dorsey with Lee Castle 13.
Tommy Dorsey with Sam Donohue 14.
Harry James I 15.
Harry James II 16.
Ray McKinley with the Glenn Miller Band (good
dupe) IN
THE MOOD:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series from 1960s features swing bands
now in 1971-1972 CBC 1: Woody Herman 12-25B 2: Les Brown 12-25B 9)
Count Basie 12-25B 10)
Charlie Barnet 12-25B 11)
Jack Leonard (Tribute to Tommy Dorsey) 12-25B 12)
Stan Kenton conducts Guido Basso Orchestra (a
Canadian ensemble)—June Christie sings 2 songs 12-25B JAZZ
SCENE USA:
Oscar Brown Jr. hosts this modern jazz series filmed in Los Angeles for
Westinghouse Broadcasting in 1963—performance and conversation with
host Brown 12-25C 1.
Teddy Buckner and his Dixieland All-Stars 2.
Mark Murphy 3.
Vi Redd Septet (woman saxophonist) 4.
Big Miller 5.
Oscar Brown, Jr. as guest 6.
The Jazz Crusaders 7.
Sounds of Synanon (sextet composed of men who have
beaten their narcotics addiction at Synanon) 8.
Cal Tjader 9.
Frank Rosolino 10. Lou Rawls 10.
Shelly
Manne 11.
Nancy Wilson 12.
Pete Fountain 13.
Curtis Amy and Paul Bryant 14.
Shorty Rodgers 15.
Harold
Land-Red Mitchell Quintet (West Coast jazz group out to break the
"cool jazz" stereotype of such regional music 16.
Cannonball Adderley 17.
Stan Kenton 18.
Jimmy Smith Trio (opens with "Walk on the
Wild Side") dupe 8-9B 19.
Teddy Edwards THE SUBJECT IS JAZZ:
limited series on NET explaining the history of jazz—each half hour is
dedicated to an aspect of that history with musical performances that
illustrate each program's theme—for specifics see David Meeker book,
Jazz In The Movies, entry 3128 1.
Introduction 2.
Ragtime 3.
Swing 4.
Blues STUDIO
61:
Robert Herridge produced this series of modern jazz in 1957 1. "Sound of Miles
Davis," Miles Davis with John Coltrane (good dupe) Jazz from Studio
61: Ahmad Jamal with Ben Webster (1959) Timex
All-Star Jazz Show: third such musical special sponsored by Timex
Watches—this one hosted by Hoagy Carmichael and Bob Crosby, with guest
that include Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day,
Chico Hamilton Quintet, Les Brown—fair dupe with all the Timex
commercials with John Cameron Swayze (11/10/58) 20-9B Benny Goodman Sextet: in
segment from TV special entitled, A Tribute To John Hammond—BG
group with George Benson on guitar salutes Charlie Christian in
performance of "7 Come 11"—includes Milt Hinton, Red Norvo
color 4-24B Timex:
Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden perform "Old Rockin' Chair's Got
Me" from Timex All-Star Jazz Show —good dupe of TV kinescope
4-24B Duke Ellington/Ella
Fitzgerald: their appearance together on The Ed Sullivan Show (dupe)
3/7/65 600' Solo:
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars in a TV concert from 1965—half-hour
of Louis' jazz 12-25B Music
of the 60s:
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra in a television concert—opens with
"Artistry in Rhythm"—followed by "Tico Tico" 1
hour kinescope V Room CAMERA 3 XIV:
jazz pianist Bill Evans circa 1967 12-25D The Lawrence Welk Show: Pete |
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