Jazz in Hollywood:Gems of Cinematic Jazz

Wednesday, November 4Nik Thompson

A match made in Hollywood

Vaudeville

The music of the undesirables

Lee de Forest

Eddie Cantor

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Eubie Blake

Noble Sissle

Legion Of the Condemned (1928)

Mutt Carey’s Liberty Syncopators

Speed Webb and H

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One-reel musical shorts & two-reel Playlets

MGM, Paramount, Universal, Columbia, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers.

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)

World War II Jazz + Cinema = Ultimate

Escapism

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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

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Animation

Max & Dave FleischerCab 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

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)

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)

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• BOOK REVUE (1946)

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Disney: Make Mine Music

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John & Faith Hubley, and Ernest Pintoff

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Documentaries

Jazz scores for motion pictures

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Terence Blanchard