Videotape, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

At the jazz band ball [videorecording] : early hot jazz, song and dance, 1925-1933.

[Newton, N.J.] : Yazoo, c1993.

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

A collection of early film clips (1925-1933), featuring song, dance, and instrumental performances of some of the giants of the Jazz Age, including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Paul Whiteman, the Dorsey Brothers, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Features clips of Bessie Smith's only screen performance, Bix Beiderbecke's sole appearance in a sound film, and an early Lee DeForest sound film of Ben Bernie's orchestra in which Jack Pettis plays what is probably the first jazz solo on film.

Producers, Sherwin Dunner, Richard Nevins ; editor, Dana Heinz.

VHS.

Jazz -- 1921-1930.

Jazz -- 1931-1940.

Jazz vocals -- 1921-1930.

Jazz vocals -- 1931-1940.

Jazz musicians -- 1921-1930.

Jazz musicians -- 1931-1940.

Big band music.

Dunner, Sherwin.

Nevins, Richard.

De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961.

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.

Whiteman, Paul, 1890-1967.

Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931.

Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949.

Wellman, Charlie.

Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937

Maize, Tessie.

Christian, Tommy.

Bernie, Ben, 1891-1943.

Darby, Ruby.

Pettis, Jack.

Fowler Studios.

Yazoo Video.

Dorsey Brothers Orchestra.

Boswell Sisters.

Get out and get under the moon / Dorsey Brothers Band (1929) -- Old man blues / Duke Ellington (1930) -- Heebie jeebies / Boswell Sisters (1931) -- Sweet Sue ; Tiger rag (Dance contest 1929) -- I cover the waterfront ; Dinah ; Tiger rag / Louis Armstrong (1933) -- My Ohio home / Paul Whiteman with Bix Beiderbecke (1928) -- Swanee River / Bill Robinson in his step dance (1932) -- Medley: The Duke steps out, Black beauty, Cotton Club stomp / Duke Ellington (1929) -- Alabamy snow / Charlie Wellman (1930) -- Chinatown, my Chinatown ; High society / Louis Armstrong (1931) -- St. Louis blues / Bessie Smith (1929) --Someday sweetheart / Tessie Maize (1930) -- Who is it? Who? ; Tommy Christian stomp / Tommy Christian (1928) -- Whistle and blow your blues away ; Mandy (1931) -- Sweet Georgia Brown / Ben Bernie (1925) -- Tell the world he's mine / Ruby Darby (1930).

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