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Made over a period of nine years, this film is a tribute to Charles Mingus. Includes a large variety of film and television clips of Mingus in performance, and combines these with contributions from his...
A biographical documentary on the jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon. Using a wide range of material including performances and interviews, Gordon narrates his own life. The film includes performances from...
Duke Ellington composed incidental music for a Timon of Athens production at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in 1963. Ellington’s sketches and partial score remained in the Stratford archives since then...
Uses performance and archival studies together with contemporary interviews to tell the story of the multi-racial, all-women’s jazz band of the 1940s. Places the Sweethearts as an integrated band in the...
An account of the life of ‘King’ Oliver (1885-1938), jazz trumpeter, band leader and composer told with stills and a selection from his recordings. Made to celebrate the centenary of his birth.
An evocation of jazz through photographs, words and music. Music by Johnny Griffin Quintet with Jon Hendricks and the voices of Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke, Jo Jones, Sonny Murray, Eddie Gomez, Bill Evans. Jazz...
Shakespeare set to music by John Dankworth and performed by Cleo Laine. Tracks are: Compleat Works, Sigh No More, Ladies, Fear No More, Witches, Fair and Foul, Shall I Compare Thee, Blow, Blow Thou Winter...
Feature film updating Othello to a jazz club setting. Aurelius Rex is a famous black jazz musician with a white wife, former singer Delia. Wealthy Rodney Hamilton throws a party for him where one of the...
Presents Ben Webster playing mainstream jazz. With Webster are Buck Clayton, Vic Dickinson, Hank Jones, George Duvivier and Jo Jones. They play ‘Mop Mop’, ‘Chelsea Bridge’, and ‘C-Jam Blues’....
A recording made for television. Begins with Davis playing ‘So What’ with a sextet - Julian Adderly, alto; John Coltrane, tenor; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, bass and Jimmy Cobb, drums. The...
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