Rent The Greatest Jazz Films Ever (1960)
1h 55min
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- Synopsis:
The most notable Jazz treatment to come out of Hollywood.
Jammin' the Blues (1944)
1. The Midnight Symphony (ad lib)
2. On the Sunny Side of the Street (Fields-McHugh)
3. Jammin' the Blues (ad lib)
Be Bop's Nest (1952)
Featuring Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie
(TV stage Entrance Show)
4. Hot House (T. Dameron)
The Sound of Miles Davis (Complete Edition) (1959)
5. So What (M.Davis)
6. The Duke (D. Brubeck)
7. Blues for Pablo (G. Evans)
8. New Rhumba (A. Jamal)
Bonus Songs:
(These four audio titles recorded at the "Jammin' the Blues" session but not used in the movie soundtrack).9. Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie-Casey-Pinkard)
10. If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight (Creamer-Johnson)
11. Blues for Marvin (ad lib)
12. Jammin the Blues - alternate take - (ad lib)
The Sound of Jazz (Complete Edition)
One of the great glorious moments of television. Billie Holiday's incandescence made this film and enduring work of art and an everlasting symbol of the emotionality and intimacy of the art of jazz. Also contains perhaps the most heartrendingly moving solos Prez ever played. Featuring Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Giuffre and many others (Jack Smight).
1. Open All Night / Blues (N. Pierce/ad lib)
2. The Count Blues (C. Basie)
3. Wild Man Blues (Armstrong - Morton)
4. Rosetta (Woode - Hines)
5. Dickie's Dream (Basie - Young)
6. Blue Monk (T. Monk)
7. I Left My Baby (Rushing - Basie - Gibson)
8. Fine and Mellow (B. Holiday)
9. The Train and the River (J. Giuffre)
10. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me (McCarron - Morgan - Swanstrom)
Jazz from Studio 61 (1960)
11. Darn Thai Dream (Van Heusen - De Lange)
12. Ahmad's Blues (A. Jamal)
13. Chelsea Bridge (B. Strayhorn)
14. Duke's Place (D. Ellington)- Actors:
- Lester Young, George 'Red' Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris, Sidney Catlett, Barney Kessel, Jo Jones, John Simmons, Illinois Jacquet, Marie Bryant, Archie Savage, Garland Finney, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk
- Directors:
- Gjon Mili, Jack Smight
- Producers:
- Gordon Hollingshead, Robert Herridge
- Narrated By:
- Knox Manning, Michael Kane
- Studio:
- EFOR Films
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
