18. Just a few
• The Mound City Blue Blowers in NINE O'CLOCK FOLKS (1929)
▫ https://youtu.be/v4W92tIXhZQ
• Eubie Blake in PIE, PIE, BLACKBIRD (1932)
• Nina Mae McKinney in PASSING THE BUCK (1932)
• Duke Ellington in BUNDLE OF BLUES (1933)
▫ http://dai.ly/x2tfmc
• Ethel Waters in RUFUS JONES FOR PRESIDENT (1933)
▫ https://youtu.be/FrIafC5_HNo
• MILLS BLUE RHYTHM BAND (1933)
• CAB CALLOWAY'S HI-DE-HO (1934)
• Claude Hopkins in BY REQUEST (1935)
• Red Nichols in MILLION DOLLAR NOTES (1935)
• Billie Holiday in SYMPHONY IN BLACK - A RHAPSODY OF NEGRO LIFE (1935)
• Ina Ray Hutton in ACCENT ON GIRLS (1936)
• Louis Prima in SWING CAT'S JAMBOREE (1938)
• BOB CROSBY AND HIS ORCHESTRA (1938)
• ARTIE SHAW'S CLASS IN SWING (1939)
• GENE KRUPA, AMERICA'S ACE DRUMMER MAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA (1941)
19. Jazz + Cinema = Ultimate Escapism
https://youtu.be/7WFjNQhj5QE
https://youtu.be/wKAPpcmvjIw
http://dai.ly/x1wae9
20. Soundies
• Originating in the Panoram
• Term generally used to describe TV or
cinema “shorts.”
• Led to the Scopitone, the Cinebox, and
Snader Telescriptions
• Stan Kenton, Tommy Dorsey, Count
Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnett,
Les Paul, Nat King Cole and more
https://youtu.be/RR9GB1P-rAc
https://youtu.be/rovAmKuJeX0
22. Max & Dave Fleischer
Cab Calloway in MINNIE THE MOOCHER (1932), SNOW WHITE (1933)
and THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN (1933)
https://youtu.be/PFZt1zlexPY
The Boswell Sisters in SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH (1932)
http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/sammondn/clips/when-its-
sleepy-time-down-south-1932
Louis Armstrong in I'LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU'RE DEAD YOU RASCAL
YOU (1932)
The Mills Brothers in DINAH (1933), I AIN'T GOT NOBODY (1932) and
WHEN YUBA PLAYS THE RUMBA ON THE TUBA (1933)
Don Redman in I HEARD (1933)
https://youtu.be/HZI7t11MGnw
23. Walter Lantz, George Pal,
and Abe Lyman & Gus Arnheim
• Swing Symphonies:
• SCRUB ME MAMA WITH A BOOGIE BEAT (1941)
• BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY OF COMPANY B (1941)
• BOOGIE WOOGIE SIOUX (1942)
• COW-COW BOOGIE (1943)
• ABOU BEN BOOGIE (1944)
• SLIPHORN KING OF POLAROO (1945)
• Puppetoons:
• Charlie Barnet for JASPER IN A JAM (1946)
• Duke Ellington for DATE WITH DUKE (1947)
• https://youtu.be/INT7nlUpvdc
• Woody Herman for RHAPSODY IN WOOD (1947)
24. Other Hollywood Animation
• Featuring: Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, the Mills Brothers
and Benny Goodman
• CLEAN PASTURES (1937)
• SWING WEDDING (1937) (MGM)
• https://youtu.be/HJwkbziNEQA
• PORKY AT THE CROCADERO (1938)
• HAVE YOU GOT ANY CASTLES? (1938)
• WHOLLY SMOKE (1938) (Looney Tunes)
• https://youtu.be/pIzF4CiVtBs
• COAL BLACK AND DE SEBBEN DWARFS (1942)
• TIN PAN ALLEY CATS (1943)
• THE SWOONER CROONER (1944) (Looney Tunes)
• http://www.trilulilu.ro/video-animatie/hollywood-caricatures-and-
parodies-1944-swooner-cr
• BOOK REVUE (1946)
Janet Kippen. National Vaudeville Artists Yearbook. 1928.
The Three Vagrants. National Vaudeville Artists Yearbook. 1928
Fred & Adele Astaire. ca. 1906
https://www.facebook.com/144784125605950/videos/vb.144784125605950/630994266984931/?type=2&theater
Phonofilms in 1922.
https://youtu.be/o9VkR95f2tA
A few moments with Eddie Cantor. This is a Lee de Forest Phonofilm.
Affectionate Dan, 1923.
Noble hated standing still while performing.
Sophie Tucker – It’s All Your Fault
Josephine Baker
Adelaide Hall
Florence Winfrey
Lost film
Mutt was from NO. He toured vaudeville circuits in 1917 before landing in LA. He played with Kid Ory (who asked Louis first) and also led his own groups including Mutt Carey’s New Yorkers (1947).
From Indiana, Left music in 1938 and became an embalmer and journalist.
Speed Webb and the Melody Lads. Speed Webb and His Orchestra. The Hoosier Melody Lads. Speed Webb and His Hollywood Blue Devil. Art Tatum Wingy Carpenter.
https://youtu.be/4i7--NRiK-I Ukulele
Jolson as a cantor’s son who pursues a career as a vaudeville song and dance man, spurning the wishes of his Jewish parents, who would rather he sung traditional music.
Biopics of jazz musicians started to release.
YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1949), followed in later years by THE GLENN MILLER STORY (1953), THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY (1955), ST. LOUIS BLUES (1958), THE FIVE PENNIES (1959), THE GENE KRUPA STORY (1959), A MAN CALLED ADAM (1966), SWEET LOVE, BITTER (1966), LADY SINGS THE BLUES (1972), LOUIS ARMSTRONG - CHICAGO STYLE (1975), SCOTT JOPLIN (1976),
Usually featured artists lip “synching/playing/miming” along to prerecorded music tracks.
Max and Dave Fleischer, Out of the Inkwell
Rotoscoping. Bouncing ball lyrics – “follow the ball”
https://youtu.be/PefKZfFMvac Lee Deforest, 1926, follow the ball and join in everybody.
Pal: Hungarian puppeteer
Abe Lyman and Gus Arnheim: California orchestra.
Walter Lantz's – brilliant, beautiful, racist as hell
Carl Stalling, composer, Wholly Smoke
Swooner Crooner:
Fats Waller, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Stepin Fetchit, The Boswell Sisters, and The Mills Brothers are caricatured in Swing Wedding
John was an animator for Disney, working on Snow White (and many more). Used Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Benny Carter, Shorty Rogers, Quincy Jones, Stan Getz and Lionel Hampton. Faith was a music and script editor/storyboard editor animator too.
First major jazz documentary. 1958 Newport Fest, released in 1960.
So in his studio, Stern set up chairs and benches over fake funeral grass, invited jazz critic Martin Williams and others to the studio -- and filmed their reactions as they looked at a rough cut.
Producers, ever on the lookout for new ways of cutting costs soon tumbled to the sad truth that jazz musicians were relatively cheap to hire and that a small ensemble, an octet, or even a quartet could satisfactorily provide the necessary musical background to a film's action
Composer Alex North wrote and recorded the first ever jazz-orientated film score for a dramatic picture. 1951.
Noir
Composer Leith Stevens started the ball rolling with his seminal use of source music jazz cues in THE WILD ONE (1953) arranged and played by Shorty Rogers and his Giants.
Elmer Bernstein, again – shorty rodgers. Also, Chico Hamilton in sweet smell of success.
Robert Wise (Director) Art Farmer (trumpet) Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax) Frank Rosolino (trombone) Bud Shank (alto sax and flute) Pete Jolly (piano) Red Mitchell (bass) Shelly Manne (drums)
Touch of evil (Orson Wells): Shelly Manne (drums); Barney Kessel (guitar); Pete Candoli; Red Norvo (vibes)
GHOSTING: red nichols playing for danny kaye.
Shadows: Charles Mingus & Shafi Hadi
Robert Wise, odds against tomorrow.
"Big 7" (Matty Matlock's Dixielanders), Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee
Krzysztof Komeda composed the film's music and the featured saxophonist was Bernt Rosengren
Quincy Jones Bitch!