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  1. Charles Mingus - The Triumph of the Underdog (1997 Video)

    Director
    Don McGlynn
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 78 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  2. Dexter Gordon - More Than You Know (1996 Video)

    Director
    Don McGlynn
    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  3. Timon of Athens (1993 Audio)

    Subject
    Music

    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...

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  4. International Sweethearts of Rhythm, The (1986 Film, Video)

    Director
    Greta Schiller; Andrea Weiss
    Subject
    Music; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  5. King Oliver (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Bowen
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 20 min.

    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.

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  6. Jazz is Our Religion (1972 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Jeremy
    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  7. Shakespeare and All That Jazz (1964 Audio)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Out of distribution (2007)

    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...

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  8. All Night Long (1961 Film)

    Director
    Basil Deardon; Michael Relph
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

    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...

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  9. Jazz from Studio ‘61 (1959 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Robert Herridge
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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’....

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  10. Sound of Miles Davis (1959 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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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