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GENE KRUPA, AMERICA'S ACE DRUMMER MAN.
     See JAZZ BALL.

GENE KRUPA AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
AFI/Columbia Collection
     Columbia Pictures Corp., 1948.
     Director: Harry Foster; Photographer: Jack Etra.
     10 mins., black & white, 35mm.         Ref. copy forthcoming
A Columbia Featurette starring the title act with Dolores Hawkins,
who perform "Bop Boogie," "Disc Jockey Jump" and "Sabre Dance." 
From the series Thrills of Music.

THE GENE KRUPA STORY.
Copyright Collection
     Philip A. Waxman Pictures, Inc./Columbia Pictures Corp., 1959.
     Director: Don Weis; Producer: Philip A. Waxman; Screenplay:
     Orin Jannings.
     99 mins., black & white, 35mm.                   FGA 4038-47
A selective (portrays Krupa's use of marijuana, but not his stand
against segregation when he started his band) screen biography of
the drummer, starring Sal Mineo, whose drumming is ghosted by Gene
Krupa himself.  Shelly Manne (as Dave Tough) and Red Nichols have
featured roles, in addition to appearances by Clyde Hurley, Al
Morgan and Bobby Troup.  Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, Jimmy and
Tommy Dorsey and Frankie Trumbauer are all represented onscreen by
actors.

THE GENTLE GIANT OF JAZZ.
     See LOUIS ARMSTRONG.

GEORGE BENSON AND FRIENDS SALUTE DIZZY GILLESPIE.
Copyright Collection
     Tall Sail Co.,/Haren and Samstone Productions, 1980.
     60 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBB 7091
A tribute to Dizzy Gillespie, featuring Benson, Ramsey Lewis,
Carmen McRae and others. 

GEORGE SHEARING IN CONCERT.
Copyright Collection
     Myriad Media Productions, Inc., 1980.
     41 mins., color, 3/4" videocassettes.            VBB 7094-95
A Japanese production featuring the numbers "Burga Lesa," "Concerto
for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano," "Have You Met Miss Jones,"
"High and Inside," "Leyenda," "Love for Sale," "On a Clear Day,"
"Recuerdos de la Alhambra," "Suite Andaluza" and "Up a Lazy River."

THE GIG.
Copyright Collection
     Castle Hill Productions/McLaughlin, Pivin, Vogel, Inc., 1985.
     Director/Writer: Frank D. Gilroy; Producer: Norman I. Cohen.
     91 mins., color, 35mm.                           CGA 3953-57
A feature about five middle-aged amateur jazz musicians who accept
an offer for a gig in the Catskills, and find problems when they
must fill out the group with a young, black, professional musician. 
Stars Andrew Duncan, Cleavon Little, Jerry Matz, Daniel Nalbach,
Wayne Rogers, Joe Silver and real-life musician Warren Vache who
plays his own music onscreen.

GIRL CRAZY.
     See WHEN THE BOYS MEET THE GIRLS.

GIVE ME THAT NEW TIME RELIGION.
Copyright Collection
     Kiva Films/National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of
     the United States, 1972.
     21 mins., color, 16mm.                              FBB 1570
Dizzy Gillespie and other non-jazz entertainers perform at
Jamaica's Kingston Arena.  All belong to the Baha'i faith and
discuss their feelings about life and their religion, emphasizing
international brotherhood and understanding.  Presented by National
Baha'i Headquarters.

GLENN MILLER--A MOONLIGHT SERENADE.
Copyright Collection
     Silverlake Productions/Tatge and Hat Trick Productions,
     Inc./RKB Productions/Channel Four Television, 1984.
     Director: Jeffrey Goldstein; Producers: Richard Kilberg,
     Cathrine Tatge.
     71 mins., color/black & white, 3/4" videocassettes.VBF 4300-01
Van Johnson hosts this mix of vintage film excerpts and
contemporary performances in celebration of the man who made
America swing.  Includes the number "Tuxedo Junction."

GLORY ALLEY.
     See CBS NEWS SPECIAL.

GOING PLACES.
     See AMERICAN MASTERS.  Satchmo--The Life of Louis Armstrong.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ.
     See TIMEX ALL-STAR JAZZ SHOW.  The Golden Age of Jazz.

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  The Best of Jazz, Vol. I.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     120 mins., sepia enhanced black & white, 1/2"
     videocassette (Betamax).                            VAA 0370
An anthology which features "Art's Blues" with Art Tatum from the
Fabulous Dorseys (1947), Pie, Pie Blackbird (1932), St. Louis Blues
(1929), The Seven Lively Arts.  The Sound of Jazz (1957, Billie
Holiday singing "Fine and Mellow"), Symphony in Black (1934) and
various excerpts, Soundies and telescriptions of Count Basie
("Quicksand" in Stage Door Canteen with Ethel Waters and in Harlem
Jazz Festival with Helen Humes), Cab Calloway, Tommy Dorsey (with
Charlie Shavers), Benny Goodman ("After You've Gone" with Red
Norvo), Jimmy Rushing, Artie Shaw (Class in Swing from 1939), Fats
Waller ("Your Feet's Too Big" from 1940) and others.  NOTE: Poor
sound quality.  SEE ALSO cited titles, Artie Shaw's Class in Swing,
Jazz Classics.  No. 104, Showtime at the Apollo and Soundies
Collection. 

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  The Best of Jazz, Vol. II.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     120 mins., sepia enhanced black & white, 1/2"
     videocassette (Betamax).                            VAA 0371
Includes three segments from The Seven Lively Arts.  The Sound of
Jazz (1957) with Henry "Red" Allen ("Wildman Blues" from 1957),
Count Basie and Thelonious Monk, and four Soundies by Nat "King"
Cole, three by Sarah Vaughan, and one each by Fats Waller and Dinah
Washington.  Also features the Dave Brubeck Quartet (on Jazz
Casual), Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Peggy Lee, the George
Shearing Quintet and two numbers by Mel Torme.  SEE ALSO Jazz
Casual.

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  The Best of Louis Armstrong.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     60 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette
     (Betamax).                                          VAA 0374
Various performances from film and television compiled together. 
Numbers include "Avalon," "C'est Si Bon," "Hello, Dolly," "Jerry,"
"A Lot of Livin' to Do," "Mack the Knife," "My Man," "Nobody Knows
the Trouble I've Seen," "Sleepytime Down South," "Someday,"
"Struttin' With Some Barbecue" and "When the Saints Go Marching In"
featuring Jewel Brown and Tyree Glenn. 

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  The Best of the Big Bands.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     80 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette (Betamax).VAA 0369
Performances by the orchestras of Charlie Barnet ("Andy's Boogie,"
"My Old Flame); Count Basie ("Basie's Conversation," "One O'Clock
Jump"), Les Brown and his Band of Renown ("Dance of Renown," "Time
Will Take Care of Everything"), Larry Clinton ("Chant of the
Jungle," "Deep Purple"), Jimmy Dorsey (with Helen O'Connell and Bob
Eberly on "Green Eyes"), Tommy Dorsey ("Marie"), the Dorsey
Brothers ("Let's Have a Party," "Opus One"), Ray Eberle ("Blue
Champagne"), Billy Eckstine ("Prisoner of Love," "Rhythm in a
Riff"), the Benny Goodman Trio ("Avalon," "Nice Work If You Can Get
It," "Stompin' at the Savoy"), Lionel Hampton, ("Air Mail Special,"
"Midnight Sun"), Harry James (with Frank Sinatra on "Saturday Night
Is the Loneliest Night of the Week"), Artie Shaw ("Symphony of
Swing") and Jo Stafford ("Let's Get Away from It All").

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  The Duke Ellington Story.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     90 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette
     (Betamax).                                          VAA 0402
Includes Black and Tan, Duke Ellington at the Cote d'Azur and the
1962 Goodyear Jazz Concert in their entirety, which allows the
viewer to see and hear Ellington and his band changing over the
years.  NOTE: Poor sound quality.  SEE ALSO cited titles.

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  Ella Fitzgerald in Concert.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     70 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAA 0375
This compilation offers Fitzgerald singing with the Ellington band
in the mid-Sixties along with a contrasting glimpse of her on a
television program more than a decade earlier, backed by the Benny
Goodman Trio (with Harry James and Teddy Wilson) and sharing vocals
with Jo Stafford on "How Come You Do Me Like You Do," "I Got It
Bad" and "St. Louis Blues."  Other numbers include "Dance the
Samba," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "I Can't Stop Loving You,"
"Lover Man," "Mack the Knife," "Satin Doll," "Take the A Train" and
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be."

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  Juke Box Saturday Night.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     85 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette (Betamax).VAA 0373
Louis Armstrong ("I'm Confessin'," "Lonesome Man Blues" with Frank
Sinatra), Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra ("Skyliner"), Count
Basie and his Orchestra ("Basie Boogie"), Cab Calloway ("Minnie the
Moocher"), Buddy Clark ("Moonlight Cocktails"), Larry Clinton and
his Orchestra ("the Dipsy Doodle"), Nat "King" Cole ("Mona Lisa,"
"Nature Boy"), Sammy Davis, Jr. and Diahann Carroll ("Porgy and
Bess" medley), Benny Goodman and his Orchestra ("Bugle Call Rag"
and "Why Don't You Do Right" with Peggy Lee), Lionel Hampton and
his Orchestra ("Love Ya Like Mad, Love Ya Like Crazy"), the Ink
Spots ("The Gypsy"), Peggy Lee ("I Only Have Eyes for You," "It's
a Good Day" and "While We're Young"), the Mills Brothers ("Paper
Doll," "Till Then" and "You Always Hurt the One You Love"), Frank
Sinatra ("I Love You," "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart"), Mel
Torme ("April Showers"), Sarah Vaughan ("The Nearness of You") and
Fats Waller ("Ain't Misbehavin'"), 

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  Sinatra and Friends.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     120 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette (Betamax).VAA 0372
A collection of episodes from Sinatra's television show, The Frank
Sinatra Show.  Features Jack Benny and June Hutton, with
performances of "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" and "You Do
Something to Me."  SEE ALSO The Definitive Sinatra. 

THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  Sinatra Live in Concert.
Copyright Collection
     All Star Video Corporation, 1980.
     120 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.               VAA 0376
Two televised foreign concerts, one from London on November 16,
1970, the other from Tokyo on July 2, 1974.  The Japanese program
includes commercials and subtitles.  Include the numbers "Angel
Eyes," "Come Fly with Me," "Don't Worry About Me," "I Get a Kick
Out of You," "I Get Along Without You Very Well," "I Have Dreamed,"
"I Will Drink the Wine," "If," "I've Got the World on a String,"
"the Lady Is a Tramp," "Let Me Try Again," "My Kind of Town," "My
Way," "Ol' Man River," "One for My Baby," "Pennies from Heaven,"
"Something," "This Time," "Under My Skin," "You Are the Sunshine of
My Life," "You Make Me Feel So Young" and "You Will Be My Music."

GOOD MORNING, MR. ZIP-ZIP-ZIP!
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Minoco Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1942.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.          Ref. copy forthcoming
Performed by Tony Pastor and his Orchestra with Jeanie Baird,
Johnny McAfee and Johnny "Paradiddle Joe" Morris.  On reel with
several other Soundies.

GOODYEAR JAZZ CONCERT.
Valburn/Ellington Collection
     Television Graphics, 1962.
     Director: Bernard Rubin; Executive Producer: Michael Bryan.
     60 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAB 6793
Duke Ellington performs "Blow by Blow," "The Good Years of Jazz,"
"Jam with Sam," "Kinda Dukish," "Satin Doll," "Take the A Train,"
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" and "V.I.P.'s Boogie," with
solos by Cat Anderson, Harold Baker, Aaron Bell, Bill Berry,
Lawrence Brown, Harry Carney, Duke Ellington, Paul Gonsalves, Jimmy
Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Ed Mullens, Ray Nance, Russell Procope and
Sam Woodyard.  The band apparently faked their playing for this
program, to insure that they looked relaxed.  SEE ALSO The Golden
Classics of Jazz.  The Duke Ellington Story.

GOT A PENNY BENNY.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Filmcraft Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1946.
     Director/Producer: William Forest Crouch.    
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FBC 2738
Performed by Nat "King" Cole, Oscar Moore and Johnny Miller.  On
reel with several other Soundies.

GREAT PERFORMANCES.  Baroque Duet--Kathleen Battle and Wynton
Marsalis.
LC Off-Air Taping Collection
     CAMI Video, 1992.
     Producer: Peter Gelb.
     Telecast: PBS, February 7, 1992.
     90 mins., color, 3/4" videocassettes.            VBI 7088-89
Alternating between documentary and performance, Battle and
Marsalis join to perform baroque music by Scarlatti, Handel and
Bach.

GREAT PERFORMANCES.  The Cotton Club Remembered.
LC Off-Air Taping Collection
     BBC Productions/WNET, 1986.
     Telecast: PBS, February 7, 1986.
     60 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBE 8083
Cab Calloway, Doc Cheatham, Chuck Green, Adelaide Hall, the
Nicholas Brothers and Max Roach hold a gala reunion to honor the
legendary Harlem nightclub.  Live performances and film clips of
the Twenties, Thirties and Forties are melded to form a musical
collage of the Cotton Club's heyday.

GREAT PERFORMANCES.  Duke Ellington--The Music Lives On.
LC Off-Air Taping Collection
     WNET/Thirteen/Fremantle International, Inc., 1984.
     Director: Jerome Schnur; Executive Producer: Jac Venza;
     Producers: Bob Bach, Bill W. Chastain, Jr.; Associate
     Producer: Yvonne Smith; Writer: David Axlerod; Videotape
     Editor: Scott P. Doniger; Cameras: Michael English, John
     Lincoln. 
     Telecast: PBS, February 27, 1984.
     90 mins., color, 3/4" videocassettes.            VBC 8537-38
A tribute to the music of Ellington, interpreted by modern
performers such as Karen Akers ("Solitude"), Kathleen Battle
("Creole Love Call"), the Boys Choir of Harlem ("150th Psalm"),
Andre DeShields and Patti LaBelle ("Beautiful Woman," "My Father's
Island" and "Sentimental Child"), the Duke Ellington Orchestra
("Caravan," excerpts from the Sacred Concerts, "Take the A Train"
conducted by Mercer Ellington), Cynthia Gregory and Marcos Paredes
of the American Ballet Theatre ("Lake" from The River,
choreographed by Alvin Ailey), Tammy Grimes ("Sophisticated Lady"),
Ben Harney ("Something to Live For"), Esther Marrow ("Come
Sunday"), Ken Page ("I'm Just a Lucky So-and-so"), Carly Simon ("I
Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" with David Sanborn), Sister Sledge
(Medley of "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me," "I Let a Song Go Out
of My Heart," "I'm Beginning to See the Light," "In a Sentimental
Mood," "It Don't Mean a Thing," "I've Got to Be a Rugcutter," "Just
Squeeze Me" and "Mood Indigo") and Treat Williams ("Satin Doll"). 
Also features the dance numbers "East St. Louis Toodle-oo,"
"Perdido" and "Rind Dem Bells."  Includes videotaped reminiscences
about Ellington and the influence of his music by Alvin Ailey, Jean
Bach, Cab Calloway, Kitty Carlisle, Mercedes, Mercer and Ruth
Ellington, John Hammond, Nat Hentoff, Al Hibbler, Yves Montand,
Joya Sherrill, Bobby Short and John Springer.  Includes excerpts
from Belle of the Nineties, Black and Tan, Murder at the Vanities
and Symphony in Black.  Hosted by Cicely Tyson.  SEE ALSO cited
titles.

GREAT PERFORMANCES.  Miles Ahead.
LC Off-Air Taping Collection
     Production company unknown, 1986.
     Director/Writer: Mark Obenhaus; Producers: Mark Obenhaus,
     Yvonne Smith; Co-Producer: Edward Gray; Editor: Kenneth
     Levis.
     Telecast: PBS, October 17, 1986.
     60 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBE 3357
A documentary on the music of Miles Davis, collected from film
excerpts of performances and interviews with Davis and his fellow
jazz musicians (George Benson, Bill Cosby, Gil Evans, Robben Lee
Ford, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter
and Tony Williams).  Includes the numbers "Al Jarreau," "Blues for
Pablo," "Footprints," "Human Nature," "New Rhumba," "Sivad," "So
What" and "Time After Time."  Includes footage from the 1986 New
Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, with personnel Bob Berg, Felton
Crews, Robben Lee Ford, Adam Holtzman, Robert Irving III, Marilyn
Mazur, Steve Thornton and Vincent Wilburn.  SEE ALSO below.

GREAT PERFORMANCES.  Miles Davis--A Tribute.
LC Off-Air Taping Collection
     Production company unknown, 1993.
     Telecast: PBS, February 19, 1993.
     120 mins., color, 3/4" videocassettes.           VBK 1567-68
A documentary tribute to Miles Davis in two parts: the first half
consists of the entirety of Miles Ahead (SEE above), the second
half consists of footage from Davis' last performance at the
Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991, Miles at Montreux, where he broke
his own rule and agreed to play the arrangements by Gil Evans which
represented one of the most famous collaborations in jazz.  NOTE:
LC copy incomplete, includes all of Miles Ahead, but lacks the
second half, Miles at Montreux, almost in its entirety.  

GREAT PERFORMANCES.  Wolf Trap Salutes Dizzy Gillespie--An All-Star
Tribute to the Jazz Master.
LC Off-Air Taping Collection
     Maryland Public Television/WNET New York/The Wolf Trap
     Foundation for the Performing Arts, 1988.
     Director: Phillip Byrd; Executive Producers: Phillip Byrd,
     Thomas G. Gherardi, Jac Venza; Producer: John T. Potthast;
     Associate Producer: Margaret Sullivan.
     Telecast: PBS, January 26, 1988.
     90 mins., color, 3/4" videocassettes.            VBF 2852-53
A special seventieth birthday tribute concert to Gillespie at Wolf
Trap in Vienna, Virginia, interviews with the participating jazz
artists and film excerpts.  Words from David Amram, Jon Faddis,
Freddie Hubbard, Hank Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Carmen McRae, James
Moody, Mickey Roker and Sonny Rollins supplement those of Gillespie
himself.  Live numbers include "The Beginning of Love" (Gillespie
and Carmen McRae), "Birks' Works" (Benny Carter, J. J. Johnson,
Hank Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Rufus Reid and Mickey Roker), "Fiesta
Migo" (Amram, Ignacio Berroa, Candido, Walter Davis, Jr.,
Gillespie, Arnie Lawrence, Nicky Marrero, Jimmy Owens, Sam Rivers,
Mongo Santamaria, Steve Turre and Dave Valentin) "Oo Bop a Da"
(Faddis, Gillespie, Slide Hampton, Jon Hendricks, Moody, Cecil
Payne and Chris White), "Quickly Forward" (Gillespie, Hank Jones,
Oscar Peterson, Rufus Reed, Roker and Rollins), "Tour de Force"
(Faddis, Gillespie, Hubbard, Marsalis, Vaughn Nark and Owens) and
"Yenga" (Kei Akagi, Gillespie, Eddie Gomez, Hubbard, Airto Moreira,
Flora Purim and Valentin).  Hosted by Willis Conover.

GREAT VIBES!
     See KENNEDY CENTER TONIGHT.

GREEN PASTURES.
     See FROM JUMPSTREET.  Spirituals and Gospels.

GROVER WASHINGTON, JR., IN CONCERT.
Copyright Collection
     Fat Lady/G-Man Productions, Inc., 1981.
     Director: Donny Osmond; Executive Producers: Bruce Buschel,
     Gary Delfiner; Associate Producers: Lee Buschel, Tina
     Stronach; Editor: Richard Jacobsen.
     53 mins., color, videodisc.                         DAA 0435
Supported by Steve Gadd, Eric Gale, Ralph McDonald and Richard Tee,
Washington performs "Come Morning," "Just the Two of Us," "Let It
Flow," "Make Me a Memory," "Mister Magic" and "Winelight," among
other numbers.

H

HALF PAST JUMP TIME.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Filmcraft Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1945.
     Director: William Forest Crouch.   
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FDA 9763
Performed by Mabel Lee.  On reel with several other Soundies.

HALLELUJAH.
     See FROM JUMPSTREET.  Spirituals and Gospels.

HARD ROCK.
Copyright Collection
     CBS, Inc., 1984.
     4 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                 VBB 7816
A music video performed by Herbie Hancock.

HARLEM HOT SHOTS.
AFI/Thunderbird Collection
     Sack Amusement Co., 1940.
     Producer: Alfred N. Sack.
     8 mins., black & white, 35mm.                       FEA 7332
Features Leon Gross and his Orchestra ("Swingeroo Stomp") with Cora
Harris ("Heaven Help This Heart of Mine"), dancer "Stringbean"
Jackson and the Red Lilly Chorus performing a tap number called
"Dance of the Bellhops."  SEE ALSO Jazz Classics.  No. 110.

HARLEM IS HEAVEN.
AFI/McAllister Collection
     Lincoln Productions, 1932.
     33 mins., black & white, 35mm.                   FEA 9804-07
A musical comedy with an all-black cast which features Jimmy
Baskett, Eubie Blake and his Orchestra, Anise Boyer, Bill
"Bojangles" Robinson, Alma Smith, Henri Wressell and members of
both the revue Hot from Harlem and of the Cotton Club chorus line. 
NOTE: LC copy lacks credits, end title; short jumps in continuity
indicate small parts lacking; film begins and ends abruptly; some
sequences appear out of order. 

HARLEM JAZZ FESTIVAL.
     See THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.  The Best of Jazz, Vol. 1.

HARLEM MANIA.
     See NORMAN THOMAS QUINTETTE.

HARLEM MERRY-GO-ROUND.
     See SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO.

HARLEM VARIETY REVUE.
     See SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO.

A HARLEMESQUE REVUE.
Montana Historical Society Collection
     Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., 1943.
     3 mins., black & white, 3/4" videocassette.         VBJ 7544
Performed by Harry Roy and his Orchestra with Mabel Mercer.  On
videocassette with several other Soundies.

HARVEST JAZZ.
Copyright Collection
     A Paul Kinney/Blaise Media Production, 1982.
     Director: Robert Zagone; Producers: Paul Blaise & Paul W.
     Rhoads.
     60 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAA 4214
A host of performances, including Richie Cole's Alto Madness
("Cole's Nocturne," "Confirmation," "Harrold's House of Jazz,"
"Redtop," "Save Your Love for Me," "Serenata" and "Strange Groove"
with Bobby Enriquez); Stan Getz ("Dolphin," "Night Has a Thousand
Eyes," "Tempus Fugit" and "A Time for Love"); Dexter Gordon
("Backstairs at the Village Vanguard," "Cheesecake" and "Skylark");
Bobby Hutcherson ("Salt Peanuts"); Bobby Hutcherson and McCoy Tyner
("La Habana Sol," "It's You or No One for Me," "The Seeker" and
"Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit"); Flora Purim and Airto Moreira ("Beijo
Partido," "Light as a Feather," "Misturada," "Nothing Will Be as it
Was," "Percussion Solo" and "The Road is Hard But We're Going to
Make It"); McCoy Tyner ("Motherland," "Tamba" and "Walk Spirit,
Talk Spirit").  Filmed at the Paul Masson Winery.

HEADLINE BANDS.
Copyright Collection     
     The Vitaphone Corp., 1945.
     Producer: Gordon Hollingshead.
     10 mins., black & white, 16mm.                      FAA 5495
A music short featuring the bands of Larry Clinton, Jimmy Dorsey,
Woody Herman and Vincent Lopez.  Features Rubinoff and his violin,
and a rendition of "Old Man Mose" by Betty Hutton.  Also includes
the numbers "Carolina in the Morning" and "Give Me a Moment
Please."

HELL'S HORIZON.
     See LET'S GET LOST.

HELLO BILL.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Alexander Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1946.
     Director: Leonard Anderson; Producer: William D. Alexander. 
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FCB 2730
Performed by Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra.  On reel with
several other Soundies.

HELLO DOLLY.
     See AMERICAN MASTERS.  Satchmo--The Life of Louis
     Armstrong and/or CBS NEWS SPECIAL.

HELLZAPOPPIN'.
     See CRAZY HOUSE.

HI DE HO.
United Artists Collection
     Vitaphone Corp., 1937.
     Director: Roy Mack; Writer: Burnet Hershey; Editor: Bert
     Frank; Photographer: Roy Foster.
     11 mins., black & white, 35mm.         Ref. copy forthcoming
A music short featuring Cab Calloway and his Orchestra performing
"Frisco Flo," "The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man," "I Gotta Right to Sing
the Blues" and "Some of These Days."  Personnel: Garvin Bushell,
Andrew Brown, Doc Cheatham, Milt Hinton, Keg Johnson, Claude Jones,
Leroy Maxey, Bennie Payne, Irving Randolph, Walter Thomas, Ben
Webster, DePriest Wheeler, Morris White and Lammar Wright. 

HI DE HO.
AFI/Dudik Collection
     All American News, Inc., 1947.
     Director: Josh Binney.
     77 mins., black & white, 16mm.                   FCA 5722-23
The 1947 all-black feature includes performances of "Hi De Ho,"
"Minnie the Moocher" and "St. James Infirmary" by Cab Calloway and
his Orchestra with Ida James, Dusty "Open the Door, Richard"
Fletcher, Jeni Le Gon and the Peters Sisters.  SEE ALSO Jazz
Classics.  Nos. 103 and 116.

HIGH SOCIETY.
     See AMERICAN MASTERS.  Satchmo--The Life of Louis
     Armstrong and/or CBS NEWS SPECIAL.  

THE HIT PARADE--Excerpt.
Valburn/Ellington Collection
     Republic Pictures Corp., 1937.
     Director: Gus Meins; Producer: Nat Levine; Associate Producer:
     Colbert Clark; Screenplay: Bradford Ropes, Samuel Ornitz.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FAB 6238
Excerpt from the feature that highlights Duke Ellington and his
Orchestra with Ivie Anderson performing "I've Got to Be a
Rugcutter."

HOAGY CARMICHAEL.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Paramount Pictures Corp., 1939.
     Director: Leslie Roush; Continuity: Justin Herman;
     Photographer: George Webber.
     10 mins., black & white, 16mm.         Ref. copy forthcoming
A music short in which Carmichael conducts the Jack Teagarden
Orchestra with singer Meredith Blake.  Numbers include "Lazy
Bones," "Rockin' Chair," "Small Fry," "Stardust," "That's Right,
I'm Wrong," "Two Sleepy People" and "Washboard Blues."  Personnel:
John Anderson, Mark Bennett, Red Bone, Ernie Caceres, Alex Fila,
Carl Garvin, Clint Garvin, Josie Gutierrez, Hub Little, Art Miller,
Allan Reuss, Art St. John, Charlie Spivak, Cub Teagarden and John
Van Eps.  NOTE: LC copy is a reissue by H. M. & M. TV Corp. with
some segments of the numbers apparently lacking.  

HOLLYWOOD HOTEL.
United Artists Collection
     First National/Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., 1937.
     Director: Busby Berkeley.
     110 mins., black & white, 3/4" videocassettes.Ref. copy forthcoming
A musical starring Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane and Louella Parsons,
among others.  Also features Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
playing "Hooray for Hollywood!," "Music of Love," "Sing, Sing,
Sing" and "Sing, You Son of a Gun," as well as "I've Got a Heartful
of Music" by the Benny Goodman Quartet (Goodman, Lionel Hampton,
Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson).  

HONEYSUCKLE ROSE.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Minoco Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1941.
     Director: Warren Murray; Producer: Fred Waller.   
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FCB 2731
Performed by Fats Waller and Myra Johnson.  On reel with several
other Soundies.  SEE ALSO Jazz Classics.  Nos. 107 and/or 111.

HOP, SKIP AND JUMP.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Minoco Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1942.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FBC 4384
Performed by Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra.  On reel with
several other Soundies.  SEE ALSO Jazz Classics.  No. 104.

HOT CHOCOLATE.
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  Nos. 101 and/or 111.


HOT FROM HARLEM.
     See HARLEM IS HEAVEN. 

HOT IN THE GROOVE.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., 1942.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.          Ref. copy forthcoming
Performed by Erskine Hawkins and his Jiving Sepia Scorchers.  On
reel with several other Soundies.  SEE ALSO Jazz Classics.  No.
110.

HOUSE ON 52ND STREET.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., 1944.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FCB 2731
Performed by Henry "Red" Allen and J. C. Higginbotham.  On reel
with several other Soundies.

I

I LIKE IT, `CAUSE I LOVE IT.
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 105.

I LOST MY SUGAR IN SALT LAKE CITY.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     RCM Productions, Inc./Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1944.
     Director: Josef Berne; Producer: Ben Hersh.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FCB 2731
Performed by Wingy Manone and his Band with Carolyn Gray.  On reel
with several other Soundies.

I WANT A MAN.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Alexander Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1946.
     Director: Leonard Anderson; Producer: William D. Alexander.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FCB 2730
Performed by Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra with Annisteen
Allen.  On reel with several other Soundies.

I WANT TO LIVE.
Copyright Collection
     Figaro, Inc./United Artists, 1958.
     Director: Robert Wise; Producers: Walter Wanger, Irving Allen;
     Screenplay: Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz; Editor: William
     Hornbeck.
     120 mins., black & white, 35mm.                  FGB 4672-77
A screen adaptation in the form of an expose of the dramatic events
in the life of a "B-girl" named Barbara Graham, which led to a
sensational murder trial and her subsequent execution.  Stars Susan
Hayward and Theodore Bikel.  Art Farmer, Pete Jolly, Shelly Manne,
"Red" Mitchell, Gerry Mulligan, Frank Rosolino and Bud Shank appear
in the opening sequence.

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU.
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 111.

I'LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU'RE DEAD, YOU RASCAL, YOU.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     RCM Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,
     Inc., 1942.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FDA 9763
Performed by Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra with Velma
Middleton.   On reel with several other Soundies.  SEE ALSO Jazz
Classics.  Nos. 102 and/or 111.

THE ILLINOIS JACQUET STORY.
     See TEXAS TENOR.

I'M A GOOD GOOD WOMAN.
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 105.

I'M HOMESICK THAT'S ALL.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Filmcraft Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1945.
     Director/Producer: William Forest Crouch.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FBC 4385
Performed by Stan Kenton and his Orchestra with Gene Howard.   On
reel with several other Soundies.

IMAGINE THE SOUND.
Copyright Collection
     Canada Ltd./Onari Productions, 1981.
     Director/Producer: Ron Mann; Co-Producer: Bill Smith;
     Photographer: Robert Fresco.
     92 mins., color, 1 videodisc.                       DAA 1921
A feature-length Canadian documentary which profiles four figures
associated with the jazz avant-garde of the Sixties: Paul Bley,
Bill Dixon, Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor.  Shepp interweaves
memories of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King with thoughts on the
impact of John Coltrane.  Bley and Dixon discuss how Sixties jazz
intersects with movements in dance.  Cecil Taylor recites poetry
and performs his music.  NOTE: LC copy released as a videodisc by
the Voyager Company, 1988.

IMPLOSIONS.
     See JAZZVISIONS.

IN A JAZZ WAY--A PORTRAIT OF MURA DEHN.
Copyright Collection
     Filmakers Library, 1986.
     Directors: Pamela Katz, Louise Ghertler.
     30 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBF 4991
An interview with dancer Mura Dehn (and her former partner Al
Liggins), who emigrated in 1925 from her classically trained
background in Russia to discover Paris, Josephine Baker, and the
jazz which propelled her to New York.  She sacrificed her career to
advance black jazz dance through her choreography and films. 
Includes excerpts from her films The Spirit Moves and Blues in
Green and Orange.  Archival dance footage and stills from the Savoy
Ballroom encompass some of Dehn's own filmwork, as well as
showcasing her best partner, James Berry.  She compares the spirit
of jazz in the Thirties to that of the Fifties, linking them to the
spirit of blacks in America at those times.  Closes with her
choreography of breakdancers, showing her continuing work.   

IN SESSION.
     See MAX ROACH and/or STEVE GADD II.

INA RAY HUTTON AND HER ORCHESTRA.
AFI/Columbia Collection
     Columbia Pictures Corp., 1949.
     Director/Producer: Harry Foster; Editor: Dan Heiss;
     Photographer: Jack Etra.
     9 mins., black & white, 35mm.          Ref. copy forthcoming
A Columbia Featurette starring the title act with Don Saxon and
Paul Vario.  From the series Thrills of Music.

INDIGO--MUSIKALISKA INTERMEZZON MED DUKE ELLINGTON ORKESTER.
Valburn/Ellington Collection
     Production company unknown, 1963.
     Director/Producer: Arne Arnbom.
     60 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 6806
Performances of "The Blues Ain't," "Boola," "Come Sunday," "Dancers
in Love," "Do Nothin' `til You Hear from Me," "Eighth Veil,"
"Guitar Amour," "Honeysuckle Rose," "I Got it Bad," "Mood Indigo,"
"Sophisticated Lady," "Star-crossed Lovers," "Take Love Easy,"
"Take the A Train" and "Tutti for Cootie" with Swedish soprano
Alice Babs and a corps de ballet from the Stockholm Opera. 
Broadcast in English with Swedish subtitles.  Recorded at the
Circus, Djurgaarden, Stockholm, on February 7, 1963.  A Swedish
production.  

INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM--AMERICA'S HOTTEST
ALL-GIRL
BAND.
Copyright Collection
     Sweethearts Project, Inc./Channel Four Television, Ltd., 1986.
     Directors/Producers: Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss.
     30 mins., color/black & white, 3/4" videocassette.  VBF 5502
A documentary covering the World War Two era popularity of the
multi-racial title act, through a compilation of Soundies, archival
footage and interviews with members.  The Sweethearts were stars at
the Apollo Theatre in New York, the Howard in Washington, D. C. and
the Regal in Chicago, and they performed overseas for American
troops.  When travelling in the segregated South, they ate and
slept on their bus because their racial integration prevented them
from using restaurants and hotels.  An examination of the role of
women and minorities in that era.

THE INTIMATE ART.
     See JAZZ--THE INTIMATE ART.

EL INVIERNO EN LISBOA.
Copyright Collection
     Igeldo Zine Produkzioak/Impala/Jet
     Films/Sara/Canal+/M.G.N. Filmes e Espectaculos, 1991.
     Director: Jose Antonio Zorrilla; Producers: Angel Amigo,
     Alfredo Matas, Tino Navarro, Alain Sarde, Jose Vicuna;
     Screenplay: Jose A. Zorrilla, Mason Funk.
     100 mins., color, 35mm.                          CGB 6262-67
A thriller starring Christian Vadim and Helene St. Pere as lovers
in a complicated plot involving arms trafficking, overthrowing the
Portuguese government and stealing a Cezanne painting.  Dizzy
Gillespie guest stars as Billy Swan, leader of the Billy Swan
Quintet at the San Sebastian jazz club "Lady Bird."  Gillespie
plays a straight horn instead of his trademark bent bell trumpet. 
One scene finds Gillespie lamenting the racism and drug use in the
United States which caused his character to flee for Europe. 
Gillespie's score for the film enlists the keyboard work of Danilo
Perez.  A French, Spanish and Portuguese production released in the
United States as The Winter in Lisbon.  

IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN'T (MA BABY).
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 105.

IT AIN'T NO SIN.
     See BELLE OF THE NINETIES--Excerpts.

J

JA-DA.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Minoco Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1942.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.          Ref. copy forthcoming
Performed by Dr. Henry "Hot Lips" Levine and his Dixielad Jazz
Band.  On reel with several other Soundies.

JACK SHELDON IN NEW ORLEANS.
Copyright Collection
     Leisure Video, 1988.
     Director: John Beyer; Producers: John Beyer, John Shoup.
     60 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAB 4593
This production joins eight musical selections showcasing West
Coast style jazz trumpeter Jack Sheldon, as well as two short
anecdotal interview segments.  Includes "Historia de un Amor," "The
Joint Is Jumping," "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else" and
"Yo' Mama."

JACK, YOU'RE PLAYING THE GAME.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., 1941.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FCB 2731
Performed by the Delta Rhythm Boys.   On reel with several other
Soundies.  SEE ALSO Jazz Classics.  No. 106.

THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW.
     See THE BUDDY RICH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP CONCERT.  No. 1.

JACKIE MCLEAN ON MARS.
Copyright Collection
     Levis, 1979.
     Director/Producer/Editor: Ken Levis; Photographer: Robert
     Chappell.
     31 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette (Betamax).VAA 2486
For Jackie McLean, "Mars" are the classrooms in Hartford,
Connecticut, where he now makes his living as a teacher.  In the
course of this documentary, interviews with McLean yield
discussions on jazz tradition, the politics of art, and heroin
addiction.  There are also dialogues with his college students, and
his rehearsals and performances.  With Woody Shaw and the Jackie
McLean Septet.

JACKSONVILLE JAZZ FESTIVAL VII.
LC Off-Air Taping Collection
     WJCT Jacksonville, 1987.
     Director/Producer: Bill Weather; Executive Producer:
     Richard V. Brown; Editor: Oliver Peters; Announcer: Norm
     Vincent.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBE 6532
A concert video covering the Seventh annual festival held at the
Florida National Pavillion in Jacksonville.  Features the Robert
Conti Group (Nick Brignola, Conti, Ricky Kirkland, Jimmy McGriff
and Rupert Ziawinski), the Branford Marsalis Quartet (Delbert
Felix, Julian Joseph, Marsalis and Jeff Watts), the Gerry Mulligan
Quartet (Dean Johnson, Bill Mays, Mulligan and Richie deRosa),
Flora Purim and Airto Moreira (with Celso Alberti, Gary Brown, Rick
Margitza, Ricardo Peixoto and Marcos Silva) and Rare Silk.

JACO PASTORIUS--MODERN ELECTRIC BASS.
Copyright Collection
     DCI Music Video Productions, Inc., 1985.
     Producers: Paul Siegel, Rob Wallis; Associate Producer:
     Brian Wierda; Cameras: Steve Devita, Bill Markle;
     Interviewer: Jerry Jemmott.
     70 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAC 9034
An instructional video featuring Pastorius in interviews discussing
his influences, teaching right and left hand technique, fretless
bass and harmonics, as well as performing solo and with an ensemble
(Kenwood Dennard and John Scofield). 

JAM SESSION.
AFI/Columbia Collection
     Columbia Pictures Corp., 1944.
     Director: Charles Barton.
     74 mins., black & white, 35mm.                   FEC 1305-12
A musical feature showcasing Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra,
Charlie Barnet and his Band, Sid Catlett, Henderson Chambers, the
Jan Garber Band, Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, Lawrence
Lucie, Velma Middleton, Teddy Powell, the Alvino Rey Band, John
Simmons, Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers, George Washington and
James Whitney.  Includes the numbers "Cherokee," "Jive Bomber," "No
Name Jive" and "St. Louis Blues."  SEE ALSO American Masters. 
Satchmo--The Life of Louis Armstrong.

JAM SESSION Nos. 1 and 2.
     See AFTER HOURS WITH ART HODES.

JAMMIN' IN THE PANORAM.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     RCM Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,
     Inc., 1942.
     Director: Reginald Le Broc; Producer: Sam Coslow.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FBC 4385
Performed by Stan Kenton and his Orchestra with Helen Huntley. 
Panoram was the trade name of the film jukebox on which Soundies
were played.  On reel with several other Soundies.

JAMMIN' THE BLUES.
United Artists Collection
     Warner Bros./Vitaphone Corp., 1944.
     Director: Gjon Mili; Technical Director: Norman Granz;
     Photographer: Robert Burks.
     11 mins., black & white, 35mm.                      FEA 8094
A classic music short documenting a jam session of "Jammin' the
Blues," "The Midnight Symphony" and "On the Sunny Side of the
Street" with Marie Bryant, Red Callender, Sidney Catlett, Harry
Edison, Illinois Jacquet, Jo Jones, Barney Kessel, Marlowe Morris,
Archie Savage, John Simmons and Lester Young.  SEE ALSO [United
Artists Music Promotional Film].

[JAPANESE TELEVISION PROGRAM FEATURING EARL HINES AND OTHERS].
     See [UNIDENTIFIED VALBURN/ELLINGTON.  No. 2].

JAZZ.
     See LITE BEER.

JAZZ AND OTHER ARTS.
     See THE SUBJECT IS JAZZ.

JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN.  Alberta Hunter.
Copyright Collection
     Adler Enterprises, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors/Producers: Clark Santee, Delia Gravel Santee.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 0669
Each episode of this series opens with a two-minute history of jazz
and includes two interview excerpts, plus a full-length,
straightforwardly shot concert at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D. C.  Here, Alberta Hunter, backed by Gerald Cook and
Jimmy Lewis, commands the stage with thinly veiled double
entendres: "He shakes my ashes/He greases my griddle/He churns my
butter/And he strokes my fiddle."  Hosted by Willis Conover.  

JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN.  Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
Copyright Collection
     Adler Enterprises, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors/Producers: Clark Santee, Delia Gravel Santee;
     Executive Producer: Larry Adler.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 0670
The 1982 Messengers include Donald Brown, Charles Fambrough,
Branford and Wynton Marsalis and Bill Pierce, performing "Little
Man," Kurt Weill's "My Ship" (with a lengthy solo by Wynton
Marsalis), "New York" and "Webb City."  A brief interview with
Blakey recalls his early career.  Hosted by Willis Conover.  

JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN.  Art Farmer.
Copyright Collection
     Adler Enterprises, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors/Producers: Clark Santee, Delia Gravel Santee.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 0671
Farmer performs with Billy Hart, Fred Hersch and Dennis Irwin for
the numbers "Nancy with the Laughing Face" and "Summer Song," among
others. 
     
JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN.  Benny Carter.
Copyright Collection
     Adler Enterprises, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors/Producers: Clark Santee, Delia Gravel Santee.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 0672
With Kenny Barron, Ronnie Bedford, George Duvivier and violinist
Joe Kennedy, Jr.  Benny Carter chose a program of jazz standards
(including "Autumn Leaves," "Cottontail," "Misty," "On Green
Dolphin Street" and "Take the A Train") for this concert recorded
at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.

JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN.  Bob Wilber and the Smithsonian Jazz
Repertory--A Tribute to Sidney Bechet.
Copyright Collection
     Adler Enterprises, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors/Producers: Clark Santee, Delia Gravel Santee.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 4873
As a teenager, Wilber learned first-hand how to emulate Sidney
Bechet's attack on soprano saxophone and clarinet.  Here he plays
a curved soprano saxophone to bring back his Bechet roots, after
decades of distancing himself from them.  Numbers include
"Daydreams" and "Summertime," with support by Phil Flanigan, Chris
Flory, Chuck Riggs, Mark Shane and Glenn Zottola.  

JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN.  Joe Williams.
Copyright Collection
     Adler Enterprises, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors/Producers: Clark Santee, Delia Gravel Santee.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 0673
Performing with Keeter Betts, Kirk Stuart and Steve Williams, Joe
Williams sings "Every Day I Have the Blues" and "Everything Must
Change," among other numbers.

JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN.  Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra.
Copyright Collection     
     Adler Enterprises, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors/Producers: Clark Santee, Delia Gravel Santee.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 4874
For over twelve years, the Jazz Orchestra founded by Thad Jones,
Lewis and Gerry Mulligan became a Monday night regular at the
Village Vanguard.  Here it's comprised of Stephanie Faulber, Earl
Gardner, Kenneth Garrett, Tom Harrell, Marc Johnson, Joe Lovano,
Earl McIntyre, Jim McNeely, John Marshall, John Mosca, Joe Mosello,
Ed Neumeister, Dick Oats, Gary Pribek, Douglas Purviance and Gary
Smulyan. 

JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN.  Red Norvo.
Copyright Collection
     Adler Enterprises, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors/Producers: Clark Santee, Delia Gravel Santee.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 0674
Norvo opens the concert with Tal Farlow and Steve Novosel on the
numbers "All of Me," "Cheek to Cheek" and "Fascinating Rhythm."  He
is then joined by Mavis Rivers for a medley and "Pennies from
Heaven."

JAZZ BALL.
Copyright Collection
     National Telefilm Associates Pictures, Inc., 1957.
     Compiler: Herbert L. Bergstein.
     60 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBE 5494
A made-for-television compilation of music extracts and Soundies,
with voiceover narrations like "What is Jazz?...It's musical
harmony and counterpoint on a perpetual orgy."   Those featured
include Louis Armstrong (wearing a leopard skin and standing waist-
deep in soap bubbles for "Shine" from Rhapsody in Black and Blue),
Dave Barbour, Ray Bauduc, Henry Busse ("Hot Lips"), Billy
Butterfield, Cab Calloway ("Smokey Joe" and "Zaz Zuh Zaz"), Bob
Chester, Bob Crosby ("How Do You Like to Love Me?" and "South
Rampart Street Parade"), Johnny "Scat" Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr. (in
his film debut with the Will Mastin Trio, singing "Boogie Woogie
Piggy"), "Wild Bill" Davison, Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra with
Bob Eberly ("Only a Rose"), Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington and his
Orchestra ("Bundle of Blues," "Rockin' in Rhythm" and "Stormy
Weather," from A Bundle of Blues), Ina Ray Hutton ("Truckin'"),
Isham Jones and his Orchestra (a ballroom version of Liszt's Second
Hungarian Rhapsody), Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa and his Orchestra
("Jungle Madness" from Gene Krupa, America's Ace Drummer Man),
Peggy Lee ("It's a Good Day" with her husband, Dave Barbour, on
guitar), Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra ("Dipsy Doodle" with Betty
Hutton and Jack Teagarden), the Mills Brothers ("I Ain't Got
Nobody," a follow-the-bouncing-ball sing-along), Russ Morgan, Tony
Pastor, Louis Prima ("Chinatown, My Chinatown"), Red Nichols, Artie
Shaw with Buddy Rich, Charlie Spivak, Rudy Vallee with the
Connecticut Yankees ("You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" from
1929) and Lawrence Welk.  SEE ALSO A Bundle of Blues.

JAZZ BOAT.
Copyright Collection
     Warwick Film Productions, Ltd., 1959.
     Director: Ken Hughes; Producers: Irving Allen, Albert R.
     Broccoli; Screenplay: Ken Hughes, John Antrobus; Story: Rex
     Reinits.
     90 mins., black & white, 35mm.                   FGB 4852-56
In CinemaScope, this juvenile delinquency feature combined with a
musical comedy stars Anthony Newly and Anne Aubrey, and includes a
featured role for Ted Heath and his music.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Art Farmer Quartet Featuring Jim Hall.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.
     Telecast: NET, March 4, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9177
Modern jazz with the intricate improvisations accomplished by Art
Farmer's fluegelhorn, Jim Hall's guitar and drummer Walter Perkins'
unusual use of the cymbals.  Steve Swallow on bass rounds out the
foursome, while host Ralph Gleason inquires into the Farmer
philosophy of jazz.  

JAZZ CASUAL.  Art Pepper Quartet.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.
     Telecast: NET, July 1, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9173
In three original compositions, alto saxophonist Art Pepper leads
his new group in the new "free form" of jazz.  These extended
improvisations, based on "D Section," "Groupin'" and "The Trip"
feature Bill Goodwin, Hersh Hamel and Frank Strazzeri.  Hosted by
Ralph Gleason.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Bola Sete and the Vince Guaraldi Trio.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.
     Telecast: NET, February 6, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9176
The Brazilian guitarist joins the Trio (Guaraldi, Fred Marshall and
Jerry Granelli) to show the influence of the Brazilian jazz idiom
on North American jazz.  With Ralph Gleason.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Carmen McRae.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1963.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, April 17, 1963.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9175
Accompanied by Norman Simmons, Walter Perkins and Victor Sproles,
McRae sings five numbers to illustrate the jazz singer's wide range
of styles.  With host Ralph Gleason she discusses her views on jazz
singing.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Charles Lloyd Quartet.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1968.
     Director: Robert N. Zagone; Producer: Ralph Gleason.   
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9186
Charles Lloyd plays saxophone and flute with his quartet, made up
of Keith Jarrett (playing piano and piano strings), Jack DeJohnette
(drums) and Ron McClure (bass).

JAZZ CASUAL.  A Conversation with Joe Sullivan.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, February 26, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9184
Sullivan talks with host Ralph Gleason about the old days in
Chicago, his association with Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong, and
his attachment to the easy, melodic style that is his signature.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1963.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, April 24, 1963.     
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9170
Brubeck explains to host Ralph Gleason how his group has
experimented with various time signatures--then demonstrates with
examples of music in these signatures.  Personnel: Paul Desmond,
Joe Morello and Eugene Wright.  SEE ALSO Dave Brubeck--Live at the
Vineyards and The Golden Classics of Jazz.  The Best of Jazz, Vol.
II.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Dizzy Gillespie Quintet.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1963.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, April 3, 1963.
     29 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9169
A program of music (with an excerpt of "Gillespiana") and a
discussion centering on composing, arranging and blues as the basis
of jazz.  Gillespie demonstrates how he combines instrumental
techniques with feeling.  Personnel: Robert Cunningham, Gillespie,
Chuck Lamplin, Lalo Schifrin and Leo Wright.  Hosted by Ralph
Gleason.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Gerry Mulligan Quartet.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1963.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, December 26, 1963.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9179
The first show in the second series of Jazz Casual, which features
the Quartet (Bob Brookmeyer, Gus Johnson, Mulligan, Wyatt Ruther)
with an interview in which host Ralph Gleason gets Mulligan's view
on the problems and pleasures of leading big bands vs. small
groups.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Jimmy Rushing.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, January 2, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9182
Rushing annotates the early blues songs he sings and plays on the
piano with recollections of his career, the early days of jazz, and
the musicians who played it.  Hosted by Ralph Gleason.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Jimmy Witherspoon--Ben Webster and the Vince Guaraldi
Trio.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1963.
     Director: Dick Christian; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, March 20, 1963.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9172
Witherspoon sings several classic and other blues numbers,
including "Ain't Nobody's Business" and "Outskirts of Town."  Then,
in an interview with host Ralph Gleason, he explains how he learned
to sing the blues.  Accompaniment provided by the Vince Guaraldi
Trio and Ben Webster (who plays "Cotton Tail").

JAZZ CASUAL.  The John Coltrane Quartet.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, February 19, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9178
A rare recording of performances of Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue,"
and two Coltrane originals "Alabama" and "Impressions" by Coltrane
with the support of Jimmy Garrison on bass, Elvin Jones on drums
and McCoy Tyner on piano.  Instead of the usual dialogue with the
featured performer, host Ralph Gleason counterpoints the music with
a brief solo comment on the experimental nature of modern jazz,
describing John Coltrane as one of the contemporary musicians
performing creatively in what amounts to a supermarket atmosphere.

JAZZ CASUAL.  The Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Quintet.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1963.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, April 10, 1963.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9180
Adderley discusses with host Ralph Gleason how the basic blues of
early jazz have been augmented and altered in today's jazz music. 
Playing contemporary arrangements in the blues style, Adderley
explains where each fits in the development of blues.  Personnel:
Adderley, Nat Adderley, Louis Hayes, Sam Jones and Joe Zawinul.

JAZZ CASUAL.  The Modern Jazz Quartet.
Copyright Collection 
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1963.
     Director: Dick Christian; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.
     Telecast: NET, March 27, 1963.
     28 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9171
John Lewis, pianist and musical director of the MJQ (Percy Heath,
Milt Jackson and Connie Kay), discusses the use of jazz in motion
pictures and in the ballet with particular reference to his own
music for the ballet Original Sin.  Fourth in the series hosted by
Ralph Gleason.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Muggsy Spanier.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, February 12, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9174
During a brief break in the program's Chicago-style musical
proceedings, host Ralph Gleason and cornetist Spanier recall the
early days of Chicago jazz and the role of Dixieland in today's
jazz scene.  Personnel: George "Pops" Foster (one of the members of
Freddie Keppard's Olympia Band in New Orleans), Darnell Howard (a
veteran of King Oliver's and Earl Hines' bands), Bob Mielke, Joe
Sullivan and Earl Watkins.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Paul Winter Sextet.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, January 22, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9168
Focuses on the performance of a few works ("Port-au-Prince:
Invocation to Dimbala, Prayer, Papa Zimbie" and "Casa Camara")
inspired by Latin American music which Winter encountered on an
extensive tour of the continent, sponsored by the State Department. 
Sextet: Warren Bernhardt, Joey Cameron, Art Harper, Ben Riley, Dick
Whitsell and Paul Winter.  Includes an interview conducted by Ralph
Gleason.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Sonny Rollins and Company with Jim Hall.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1963.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, March 6, 1963.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9183
Tenor saxophonist Rollins and his group (Bob Cranshaw on bass and
Ben Riley on drums) improvise as an ensemble with guitarist Jim
Hall.  In a short interview with host Ralph Gleason, Rollins
focuses on the principles involved in picking a group's repertory,
how musical arrangements are worked out, and the effect of tempo
and key changes on a musical selection.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Turk Murphy's San Francisco Jazz Band.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1962.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, June 20, 1962.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9185
Focus on a band devoted to the preservation of interesting and rare
old jazz tunes.  During an interview with host Ralph Gleason,
Murphy discusses how the band's instruments are blended, how
material is selected, and why his group is not considered
Dixieland.

JAZZ CASUAL.  Woody Herman and the Swinging Herd.
Copyright Collection
     KQED for National Educational Television, 1964.
     Director: Richard Moore; Producers: Ralph Gleason, Dick
     Christian.     
     Telecast: NET, January 15, 1964.
     30 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette.        VAB 9187
A program of music featuring soloists Bill Chase on trumpet and Sal
Nistico on reeds.  The numbers include "Lonesome Old Town," "That's
Where It Is" and "El Torre Grande."  Features an interview by Ralph
Gleason about the role of the big aggregation in jazz.

JAZZ CLASS.
Copyright Collection
     WHA-TV/Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System,
     1985.
     Directors: Nancy Ciezki, Chuck France; Executive
     Producer: Carol Cotter; Producer: Nancy Ciezki;
     Editor/Videographer: Chuck France.
     58 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 5541
Jazz bassist Richard Davis and pianist Ben Sidran perform and
discuss their music.  The film focuses on these two men attempting
to pass along an appreciation of jazz to the next generation of
musical performers, through an appearance at Morona Grove High
School near Madison, Wisconsin.  Davis auditions students for the
UW Black Music Ensemble, teaching them how to grasp the feel of
classics like "Summertime."  Also features Bobby McFerrin and Sarah
Vaughan.  Sidran is captured recording his National Public Radio
program, Sidran on Record, while performing at Orphan's in Chicago
and teaching his son jazz piano.  Includes the numbers "All Blues,"
"Autumn Leaves," "Bird and Bela in B Flat," "Half Pass," "Joy
Spring," "Seven Steps to Heaven," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Take the
A Train," "Tin Tin Deo" and "Up Jumped Spring."

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 101, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, 1929-
1941.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Directors: Josef Berne, Dudley Murphy, Fred Waller.
     33 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1942
Three short films: Black and Tan (1929, Murphy) which focuses on
the Duke at the Cotton Club with the Hall Johnson Choir and Fredi
Washington performing "Black Beauty," "Cotton Club Stomp," "The
Duke Steps Out," "Hot Feet" and "Same Train" as well as James
"Bubber" Miley doing "Black and Tan Fantasy; " Symphony in Black--A
Rhapsody of Black Life (1935, Waller) includes the title symphony,
divided into four parts ("The Laborers," "A Triangle," "A Hymn of
Sorrow" and "Harlem Rhythm") with Bessie Dudley, Billie Holiday and
Earl "Snakehips" Tucker; and finally a Soundie, Hot Chocolate
(1941, Berne, alternate title Cottontail), which focuses on the
talents of Rex Stewart and Ben Webster, with a special appearance
by Whitey's Lindy Hoppers.  SEE ALSO Black and Tan, Great
Performances.  Duke Ellington--The Music Lives On and Symphony in
Black--A Rhapsody of Negro Life.

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 102, Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra, 1942-
1965.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1986.
     Directors: Josef Berne, Jorn Winter.    
     33 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1948
This video compiles four 1942 Soundies by Louis Armstrong: Swingin'
on Nothin' highlights the vocals of Velma Middleton, the trombone
of George Washington and the trumpet of Louis Armstrong.  Sleepy
Time Down South and Shine (Berne) feature comedian Nicodemus (Nick
Stuart).  I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You showcases
"Big Sid" Catlett, Lawrence Lucie, Velma Middleton and Luis
Russell.  Finally, Solo (1965, Winter) has the All-Stars performing
their regular concert repertoire: "Avalon" with Tyree Glenn on
vibes, "A Lot of Livin' to Do," "Mack the Knife," "My Man" with
Jewell Brown singing, "Ole Miss," "Sleepytime Down South" and
"Struttin' with Some Barbecue" interwoven with musical quotes from
commercial jingles for Winston cigarettes and Colgate toothpaste. 
SEE ALSO I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You; Shine;
Sleepy Time Down South and Swingin' on Nothin'.
  
JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 103, Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, 1935-1947.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Directors: Roy Mack, Charles F. Reisner, Fred Waller.  
     30 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1949
A mix of film excerpts and Soundies, including Cab Calloway's
Jitterbug Party (1935, Waller) which finds them taking over a party
with "Call of the Jitterbug," as well as "Hot-cha Razz-ma-tazz" and
"Long About Midnight."  Next, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937,
Reisner) features the number "Mama, I Want to Make Rhythm." Four
soundies from 1942 follow: Blues in the Night; Minnie the Moocher;
Virginia, Georgia and Caroline and The Skunk Song.  These
forerunners of music videos spotlight the Cabaliers, Shad Collins
and Tyree Glenn.  The next excerpts are from Hi De Ho (1937, Mack)
featuring the title song and "The Little Old Lady from Baltimore"
with the Peters Sisters.  The last segment shows St. James
Infirmary (1947), with the Cabaliers, Panama Francis, Milt Hinton
and Jonah Jones.  SEE ALSO Blues in the Night; Hi De Ho; Jazz
Classics.  No. 116; Minnie the Moocher; The Skunk Song; and
Virginia, Georgia and Caroline. 

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 104, Symphony of Swing, 1939-1942, The Big
Bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey Plus
Others.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Director: Leslie Roush.
     34 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1943
A video comprised of eight segments devoted to the top bands and
orchestras which flourished around the time of the Second World
War.  Symphony of Swing (1939), a Vitaphone musical short with
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra performing "Alone Together," "Deep
Purple" (with Helen Forrest), "Jeepers Creepers" (with Tony Pastor)
and "Lady Be Good."  The next segment, a 1939 Paramount short
called Artie Shaw's Class in Swing (Roush) features the number "I
Have Eyes," with George Andrus, Helen Forrest, Chuck Peterson and
Buddy Rich.  Shifting to the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the next
short showcases the song One O'Clock Jump (1942).  The Gene Krupa
Band is featured with Roy Eldridge and Anita O'Day in Thanks for
the Boogie Ride (1942) and Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra perform
My Sister and I, with Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell.  The last
three Soundies highlight "underrated" bands: Hop, Skip, Jump (1942)
by Charlie Spivak, Barnyard Bounce (1941) by the Will Bradley
Orchestra (with Ray McKinley) and Boogie Man (1943) by Johnny Long
and his Orchestra.  SEE ALSO Artie Shaw and his Orchestra in
Symphony of Swing; Artie Shaw's Class in Swing; Hop, Skip and Jump
and [United Artists Music Promotional Film].

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 105, Louis Jordan and Friends, 1941-1945.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1986.
     Directors: Larry Ceballos, William Forest Crouch.
     46 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1938
The first three-quarters of the video incorporate several Soundies,
including Some of These Days (1942) with Maxine Sullivan.  Beat Me
Daddy, Eight to the Bar (1940, Ceballos) shows Maurice Rocco's
brand of boogie woogie.  Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma Baby) (1944)
combines the talents of the Nat "King" Cole Trio and Ida James. 
Hilda Rogers sings Everyday Is Saturday in Harlem (1943), while
Louis Jordan introduces Una Mae Carlisle in I'm a Good Good Woman
(1944).  Tap Happy (1943) features the dance team of Slim and
Sweets.  In 1944, the influence of the Second World War could be
detected in songs like Ration Blues, by Louis Jordan.  A humorous
Soundie comes next, with Meade Lux Lewis playing boogie woogie
piano and "Big" Joe Turner singing Low Down Dog (1944), as comedian
Dudley Dickerson mimes the blues.  I Like it, `Cause I Love It
(1944) brings back Una Mae Carlisle, as Fuzzy Wuzzy (1942) unites
the voice of Louis Jordan with the sound of his band, supported by
dancer Ruby Richards.  Maurice Rocco's Rhumboogie (1943) was
probably named after a Chicago nightclub by the same name. 
Caldonia (1945, Crouch), an all-black musical short which features
the songs "Buzz Me," "Caldonia," "Honey Chile" and "Tillie," was
produced by Astor Pictures.  SEE ALSO Caldonia, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Jazz
Classics.  No. 109, Ration Blues and Some of These Days.   

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 106, Nat "King" Cole plus the Mills Brothers,
1942-1949.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Director: William Forest Crouch.   
     37 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1939
Most of these are Soundies, starting with The Trouble with Me Is
You (1945) and Come to Baby Do (1946), featuring the Nat "King"
Cole Trio (Oscar Moore and Johnny Miller).  The Mills Brothers
perform Paper Doll (1942) and You Always Hurt the One You Love
(1944).  Next, Nat "King" Cole and the trio return with You Call It
Madness (1946), followed by the Delta Rhythm Boys, performing Jack,
You're Playing the Game (1941).  Three more songs by the Mills
Brothers are next, all from 1944: Till Then, Hoagy Carmichael's
Lazy River and Rockin' Chair.  Nat "King" Cole ends the video with
Errand Boy for Rhythm (1946, Crouch).  SEE ALSO Come to Baby Do;
Jack, You're Playing the Game; Paper Doll; Rockin' Chair and You
Call It Madness.
  
JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 107, Fats Waller and Friends, 1941-1946.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1986.
     Directors: William Forest Crouch, Warren Murray.  
     29 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1944
Another compilation of mostly Soundies.  This tape highlights the
work of Fats Waller and includes a recording from November 7, 1940
of Your Feet's Too Big (with "Bugs" Hamilton and Gene Sedric),
Ain't Misbehavin', and Honeysuckle Rose (with Al Casey and Gene
Sedric), all from 1941.  Chatter (1943), a dance routine by the
team Cook and Brown features "I Got Rhythm" and an unidentified
pianist.  T.G. Boogie Woogie (1945) stars Tiny Grimes.  Cow Cow
Boogie (1942) showcases the talent of Dorothy Dandridge.  Bob
Howard gives us She's Too Hot to Handle from 1941, and the dancers
Tip, Tap and Toe (Teddy Frazier, Sammy Green and Raymond Winfield) 
slide to Shout, Brother, Shout! (1944).  Mabel Lee's swing number
Chicken Shack Shuffle from 1943 refers to Tillie's Chicken Shack,
a famed Harlem hang-out.  The Three Chefs sing and dance to the
"patter" song, Breakfast in Rhythm (1943), with accompaniment by
Barry Paige's Orchestra.  Finally, Fats Waller returns with Myra
Johnson to do The Joint Is Jumpin' (1941).  SEE ALSO Ain't
Misbehavin', Chatter, Honeysuckle Rose and Your Feet's Too Big.

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 108, Bessie Smith and Friends, 1929-1941.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1986.
     Directors: Hans Burger, Roy Mack, Dudley Murphy.  
     39 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1937
Accompanied by J. Rosamond Johnson and the Hall Johnson Choir,
Bessie Smith sings the St. Louis Blues in a Warner Brothers short. 
Shot in Astoria, Long Island during the summer of 1929, it also
stars Jimmy Mordecai and Isabel Washington.  The next Warner
Brothers Vitaphone short from 1932, called Pie, Pie Blackbird stars
Eubie Blake and his Band, Nina Mae McKinney and the Nicholas
Brothers with the numbers "Blackbird Pie," "China Boy," "Everything
I've Got Belongs to You," "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You
Rascal You" and "Memories of You." The last short, Boogie Woogie
Dream (1941, Burger), stars Lena Horne, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson
and Teddy Wilson and his All-Star Band performing the title song
and "Unlucky Woman" at the Cafe Society.  SEE ALSO cited titles and
Jazz Profiles--Joe Williams; Pie, Pie Blackbird and St. Louis
Blues.

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 109, Count Basie and Friends, 1943-1945.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Directors: Josef Berne, William Forest Crouch. 
     32 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1951
From Choo Choo Swing (1943, Berne), Count Basie and his Band
perform "Count Basie Boogie" and "Swingin' the Blues," as the Bobby
Brooks Quartet sings "St. Louis Blues."  The Delta Rhythm Boys sing
"Someone's Rockin' My Dream Boat."  The Count returns with Take Me
Back Baby (1941), featuring Jimmy Rushing.  The Delta Rhythm Boys
return with Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin' from 1945.  Lastly, in a
short directed by Crouch, Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five perform
Caldonia (1945).  SEE ALSO The Band Parade, Caldonia, Jazz
Classics.  No. 105, Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin' and Take Me Back
Baby.

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 110, Harlem Harmonies, Vol. I, 1940-1945.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1986.
     Director: Barry Shear.   
     35 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1946
Harlem Hot Shots (1940) starts off this collection with Leon Gross
and his Orchestra and "The Swingaroo  Stomp/Dear Old Southland." 
Cora Harris joins in on "Heaven Help this Heart of Mine," the
dancers take their turn on "Dance of the Bellhops," with the band
playing "I Found a New Baby."  "Stringbean" Jackson ends the
program with his special routine, backed by "Christopher Columbus." 
Bipp Bang Boogie, a short made by Harlemwood Studios during World
War Two, features the Ebony Trio with "Sermon on the Blues."  Tap
dancer Private Andrew Brown performs the title number.  Red Hot
Heat opens with Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady," while
showing a line of chorus girls with lorgnettes and ermine capes. 
Once they shed the fur, the title number begins.  A collection of
Soundies follow: Hot in the Groove (1942) follows with Erskine
Hawkins and his `Bama State Collegians, then Skeets Tolbert and his
band play No, No Baby (1945).  Noble Sissle performs Everybody's
Jumpin' Now (1944) with Wilbert Kirk and Mabel Lee.  Sister Rosetta
Tharpe makes an appearance with the Lucky Millinder Orchestra on
Lonesome Road (1941), with solos by "Stump" Brady and "Pazuzza"
Simon.  Tiny Grimes and his quintet perform Swingin' in the Groove
(1945, Shear), followed by Jungle Jig (1941), with Dorothy
Dandridge and Cee Pee Johnson and his band.  SEE ALSO Bipp Bang
Boogie, Everybody's Jumpin' Now, Harlem Hot Shots and Hot in the
Groove.  

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 111, Harlem Harmonies, Vol. II, 1941-1946.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Directors: Josef Berne, Hans Burger, William Forest
     Crouch, Warren Murray.
     30 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1952
A Soundies compilation in which Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
perform Hot Chocolate from 1941 (alternately titled "Cottontail")
with solos by Ben Webster and Rex Stewart and dancing by Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers.  Let's Scuffle (1942) stars Bill "Bojangles"
Robinson, while Cab Calloway teaches us how to talk "jive" in Jive
Talk Dictionary (1942).  Next, Billy Eckstine's big band performs
Tadd Dameron's arrangement of I Want to Talk about You from 1944. 
Lena Horne gives her rendition of the blues with Teddy Wilson and
his All-Star Band on Unlucky Woman (1941).  I'll Be Glad When
You're Dead, You Rascal You (1942) with Louis Armstrong and his
Orchestra features "Big Sid" Catlett, Lawrence Lucie, Velma
Middleton and Luis Russell.  Caldonia (1945) showcases Louis Jordan
and his Tympany Five with Richard Huey, Nicki O'Daniel, Sam "Spo-
de-o-de" Pheard and George "Teacho" Wiltshire.  "Buzz Me," "Honey
Chile" and "Tillie" follow.  Fats Waller plays Honeysuckle Rose
from 1941, then the Nat "King" Cole trio performs Errand Boy for
Rhythm (1946).  Count Basie and his Band play Take Me Back Baby
with Jimmy Rushing as the penultimate number.  Finally, the Three
Chefs sing Breakfast in Rhythm (1943), accompanied by Barry Paige's
Orchestra.  SEE ALSO Caldonia; Honeysuckle Rose; I'll Be Glad When
You're Dead, You Rascal You; Let's Scuffle and Take Me Back Baby. 

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 112, Lena Horne.  The Duke is Tops.  
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Directed by William Nolte.
     75 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1940
One of the first starring vehicles for Lena Horne, this 1938 all-
black musical romance also stars Ralph Cooper.  Originally made by
Million Dollar Productions, the film includes the song "I Know You
Remember."  

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 113, Killer Diller.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Director: Josh Binney; Producer: E. M. Glucksman; Story &
     Screenplay: Hal Seeger; Photographer: Lester Lang; Editor: L.
     Hesse; Music: Rene J. Hall.
     80 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1941
This All American 1948 film pays tribute to black vaudeville with
a story of a magician and his disappearing acts that ties together
a musical variety show.  Performances by the Clark Brothers, the
Nat "King" Cole Trio with Johnny Miller and Oscar Moore, Dusty
"Open the Door, Richard" Fletcher, Andy Kirk and his Band, Jackie
"Moms" Mabley, Butterfly McQueen, Beverly White and George
Wiltshire.  Numbers include "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Breezy and the
Bass," "Don't Sit on My Bed," "I Believe," "If I Didn't Care," "Now
He Tells Me" and "Ooh Kick a Rooney."  SEE ALSO Killer Diller.
     
JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 114, Louis Jordan.  Reet, Petite and Gone.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Directed by William Forest Crouch.
     105 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette. VAB 1945
An all-black musical made by Astor Productions in 1947 featuring
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five with June Richmond and Vanita
Smythe.  SEE ALSO Reet, Petite and Gone. 

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 115, Dizzy Gillespie.  Jivin' in Be-bop.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc./William D. Alexander Productions, 1987.
     Director: Leonard Anderson; Producer: William D. Alexander;
     Screenplay: Powell Lindsay; Photographer: Don Malkames;
     Editor: Gladys Brothers; Sound: Nelson Minnerly.
     60 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1950
A unique glimpse of bebop in 1947 with Dizzy Gillespie and his
Orchestra onstage in a series of performances including some dance
routines, occasionally engaging in comic jive repartee with an
emcee identified variously as "Peanut Head" Jackson and Bart. 
Numbers include "Be Bop a Lula," "Boogie in C," "Boogie in D," "Bop
a Lee-ba," "Crazy About a Man" with Helen Humes, "Dizzy
Atmosphere," "Grosvenor Square," "He Beeped When He Shoulda
Bopped," "I Waited for You" with Kenny "Pancho" Hagood, "A Night in
Tunisia," "One Bass Hit," "Oop Bop Sh'Bam," "Ornithology," "Salt
Peanuts," "Shaw `Nuff," "Shoot Me a Little Dynamite Eight" and
"Things to Come."  Personnel: Ralph Brown, Ray Brown, Dan Burley,
Dave Burns, Freddie Carter, Gil Fuller, Kenny Hagood, Benny Harris,
Helen Humes, Milt Jackson and John Lewis (of the as-yet unformed
Modern Jazz Quartet), Johnny and Henny, James Moody, Pancho and
Dolores, Frank Paparelli, Phil and Audrey, Daisy Richardson, Sahji,
Ray Sneed and Johnny Taylor.  SEE ALSO Jivin' in Be-Bop.

JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 116, Hi De Ho.
Copyright Collection
     Videofidelity, Inc., 1987.
     Director: Josh Binney.   
     60 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 1947
The 1937 all-black feature includes performances of "Hi De Ho,"
"Minnie the Moocher" and "St. James Infirmary" by Cab Calloway and
his Orchestra with Dusty "Open the Door, Richard" Fletcher, Ida
James, Jeni Le Gon and the Peters Sisters.  SEE ALSO Hi De Ho.

JAZZ COMES HOME TO NEWPORT.
LC Off-Air Taping Collection
     Rossfoff Productions/WNET, 1984.
     Director: Rudi Goldman; Executive Producer: Dale Riehl;
     Producer: Hal Hutkoff.
     Telecast: PBS, December 26, 1984.
     60 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 1184
A special filmed at the 1984 Newport Jazz Festival during its
thirtieth anniversary which features the Dave Brubeck Quartet
("Blue Rondo a la Turk," "Take Five"), Ron Carter ("Telephone"),
Stan Getz ("Blood Count," "Time After Time"), Dizzy Gillespie (a
veteran of the first Newport concert) and Michel Petrucciani.

JAZZ CORNER.
Copyright Collection
     DCDM Productions, 1991.
     Executive Producer: David Jenkins; Cameras: David
     Jenkins, Paul Puttman.
     29 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAC 4882
A concert performance video shot in the streets of New York,
featuring Harold Ousley and the Circle of Friends (Butch Bateman,
George Grannum and Paul Ramsey).  Numbers include "Goodbye" and
"Manha da Carnival."

JAZZ FESTIVAL.
AFI/Neptune Collection
     Studio Films, Inc., 1955.
     Director: Joseph Kohn; Producer: Ben Frye.
     69 mins., black & white, 3/4" videocassettes.Ref. copy forthcoming
A musical compilation assembled from Snader and Studio
Telescriptions for release to theaters.  Features Bill Bailey,
Count Basie, Ruth Brown, Cab Calloway, the Clovers, Larry Darnell,
Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Herb Jeffries, the Larks, Amos
Milburn, Mantan Moreland, Nipsey Russell, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah
Washington.  An audience and emcee have been added to create the
illusion of a cohesive stageshow.  SEE ALSO: Basin Street Revue,
Jazz Profiles--Joe Williams, Rhythm and Blues Revue, Rock `n' Roll
Revue and Showtime at the Apollo.

JAZZ GETS BLUE.
     See FROM JUMPSTREET.

THE JAZZ HOOFER--THE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY BABY LAURENCE.
Copyright Collection
     H-D Productions, 1981.
     Director/Producer: Bill Hancock.
     29 mins., color/black & white, 16mm.                FBB 8926
A portrait of the tapdancer Laurence Donald "Baby Laurence" Jackson
and his "personal history" of tap dance, stating the case along the
way for the neglected art.  Cutting back and forth between
appearances at a street fair in his hometown of Baltimore and at
New York's Jazz Museum just before his death in 1974, this film
shows a dancer gifted in the "batterie" style of jazz tap. 
Includes a history of tap, from the first "buck" step to John
Bubbles' refinements.  Dorothy Bradley, friend and widow of Buddy
Bradley, the celebrated dance coach, sets Jackson's style in
perspective.  Excerpts also include footage of Charlie Parker and
Art Tatum, to whom Jackson attributes his stylistic development.

JAZZ IN AMERICA.  Gerry Mulligan. 
Copyright Collection
     Jazz America, Ltd./KCET Community Television
     Production/United American and Australasian Film
     Productions, Pty, Ltd., 1981.
     Director: Stanley Dorfman; Executive Producer: Jeanne Mulcahy;
     Producer: Gary Keys; Co-Producer: Tim Owens.
     Telecast: PBS, September 22, 1983.
     60 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette (Betamax).      VAA 1304
In this program, Mulligan touches both sides of the U.S. in the
compositions "K-4 Pacific" and "North Atlantic Run."  With Harold
Danko, Billy Hart and Frank Luther as support.  Taped at New York's
Eric jazz club.

JAZZ IN AMERICA.  John Birks Dizzy Gillespie. 
Copyright Collection
     Jazz America, Ltd./KCET Community Television
     Production/United American and Australasian Film
     Productions, Pty, Ltd., 1981.
     Director: Stanley Dorfman; Executive Producer: Jeanne Mulcahy;
     Producer: Gary Keys; Co-Producer: Tim Owens.
     Telecast: PBS, September 8, 1983.
     60 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAA 1303
This program features Ray Brown, Valerie Capers, Ed Cherry,
Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Gerry Mulligan, Paquito D'Rivera, Max
Roach and eighteen other jazz musicians performing a selection of
numbers associated with Gillespie's musical career, including
"Bebop," "Birk's Works," "Groovin' High," "Hot House" (from a 1952
appearance on Stage Entrance with Charlie Parker), "Loverman,"
"Manteca," "A Night in Tunisia," "Papa Joe," "Salt Peanuts" and
"Tintindeo."  Filmed at Redondo Beach in California.  SEE ALSO
American Masters.  Celebrating Bird--The Triumph of Charlie Parker.

JAZZ IN AMERICA.  Lincoln Center, New York. 
Copyright Collection
     Jazz America, Ltd./KCET Community Television
     Production/United American and Australasian Film
     Productions, Pty, Ltd., 1982.
     Directors: Stanley Dorfman, Richard J. Wells; Executive
     Producer: Jeanne Mulcahy, Dick Reed, Paul A. Rosen;
     Producer: Gary Keys; Co-Producer: Tim Owens.
     90 mins., color, 3/4" videocassettes.            VBB 8671-72
This special concert, called "Dizzy's Dream Band," brings together
Pepper Adams, Candido, George Davis, George Duvivier, Jon Faddis,
Frank Foster, Curtis Fuller, Gillespie, Roland Hanna, Jimmy Heath,
Jon Hendricks, Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Melba Liston, Gerry
Mulligan, Chico O'Farrill, Victor Paz, Benny Powell, Paquito
D'Rivera, Max Roach, Janice Robinson, Marvin Stamn, Grady Tate,
Frank Wess, Paul West and Joe Wilder.  Centering on a concert at
Lincoln Center in New York, the special includes the numbers
"Groovin' High," "Hot House," "Lover Man," "Manteca," "Mr. Hi-Hat,"
"A Night in Tunisia," "Salt Peanuts" and "Tin Tin Deo." 

JAZZ IN AMERICA.  Max Roach.
Copyright Collection
     Jazz America, Ltd./KCET Community Television
     Production/United American and Australasian Film
     Productions, Pty, Ltd., 1981.
     Director: Stanley Dorfman; Executive Producer: Jeanne Mulcahy;
     Producer: Gary Keys; Co-Producer: Tim Owens.
     Telecast: PBS, September 15, 1983.
     60 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette (Betamax).      VAA 1302
Taped at Blues Alley in Washington, D. C., Cecil Bridgewater and
Odean Pope accompany Roach.  Numbers include "Effie."

JAZZ IN EXILE.
Copyright Collection
     Francerelli Films, 1978.
     Director/Producer/Editor: Chuck France; Associate
     Producer: Kathleen Lattarelli; Photographers: Chuck
     France, Bruce Malm.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBC 8035
Documentary which interweaves performances and interviews about
American jazz expatriates in Europe, including the Art Ensemble of
Chicago ("March Medley"), Gato Barbieri, the Carla Bley Band ("Sing
Me Softly of the Blues"), Gary Burton, Betty Carter, Art Farmer
("In a Sentimental Mood" with Buddy Montgomery and Rufus Reid),
Wilton Felder, the Dexter Gordon Quartet ("Alone Together,"
"Gingerbread Boy" and "Red Top"), the Johnny Griffin Quartet ("Soft
and Furry"), Slide Hampton ("So What" with Art Farmer and Harold
Land), the Billie Holiday Orchestra ("Fine and Mellow"), Nesbert
"Stix" Hooper, Freddie Hubbard, the Steve Lacy Quintet ("New
Duck"), Chuck Mangione, the Woody Shaw Quintet ("Why"), McCoy
Tyner, Randy Weston ("Hi-Fly") and the Phil Woods Quartet ("Little
Niles").  Voiceover interviews of Carla Bley and Steve Lacy comment
over footage of her JCOA Band, his Quintet, and Elvin Jones and his
Group.  The longest musical performance of the film is the piece
featuring Richard Davis, Bill Meeker and Ben Sidran, playing "All
Blues," and a bowed version of "Summertime."  It closes with Phil
Woods playing "Last Night When We Were Young." 

JAZZ IN THE CONCERT HALL.
     See NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS.

JAZZ IS MY NATIVE LANGUAGE--A PORTRAIT OF TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI.
Copyright Collection
     Counterpoint Productions, 1983.
     Director/Producer: Renee Cho; Editor: Gail Yasunaga;
     Director of Photography: Bryan Duggan.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBD 9619
A documentary on the music and life of pianist and bandleader
Toshiko Akiyoshi, a Japanese-American woman who leads an all-male
band.  As well as rehearsal and concert footage, voiceover
narration and interviews show Akiyoshi's family and personal
history, including the story of her discovery by Oscar Peterson and
her special appearance on a 1956 episode of What's My Line? 
Includes a guest appearance by Leonard Feather and the numbers
"Minamata," "Remembering Bud," "Son of Roadtime," "Tales of a
Courtesan" and "Village."  "After Mr. Teng," "Count Your Blessings"
(performed by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio with Joey Baron and Tony
Dumas) and "Feast in Milano" are included on the soundtrack. 
Personnel: Akiyoshi, Randall Aldcroft, Charles Roscoe Beek, Bob
Bowman, Dave Bowman, Bill Byrne, Matt Catingub, Buddy Childers,
Richard Cooper, Peter Donald, Larry Ford, Gary Foster, Bruce
Fowler, Steve Huffsteter, Dana Hughes, Mike Price, Bob Sheppard,
Hart Smith, Lew Tabackin (Akiyoshi's husband) and Phil Teele.

THE JAZZ LEGENDS.
Copyright Collection
     K-Twin/DeFlores Production, 1986.
     Producer: Tom Pelissero.
     40 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAB 0511
A compilation of vintage performances by Albert Ammons and Pete
Johnson ("Boogie Woogie Dream" with an introduction by Lena Horne),
Louis Armstrong ("Sleepy Time Down South" with Billy Kyle and
Trummy Young), Cab Calloway ("Blues in the Night" with "Cozy" Cole
and Milt Hinton), the Nat "King" Cole Trio ("Is You Is or Is You
Ain't (Ma Baby)?" with Ida James), Duke Ellington ("Take the A
Train" with Cat Anderson, Lawrence Brown, Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny
Hodges and Ray Nance), Benny Goodman and his Orchestra ("Why Don't
You Do Right?" with Peggy Lee from Stagedoor Canteen, 1943), Lena
Horne and Teddy Wilson ("Friday Blues"), Anna Lee and Wingy Manone
("Vine Street Blues"), Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
("Caldonia"), Art Tatum ("Art's Blues" with Ray Bauduc, Charlie
Barnet, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Ziggy Elman and others from The
Fabulous Dorseys, 1943), Jimmy Rushing, Fats Waller ("Ain't
Misbehavin'") and Joe Williams ("Going to Chicago").  SEE ALSO The
Fabulous Dorseys and Stagedoor Canteen.

THE JAZZ MESSENGER.
     See ART BLAKEY--THE JAZZ MESSENGER.

JAZZ-N-DETROIT.
Copyright Collection
     Jam Video Productions, 1990.
     Director/Executive Producer: Earl D. McCullough;
     Executive Co-Producers: Charles Hill and Lewis Morris.
     24 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAB 3267
A combination of interviews with Wendall Harrison and Jimmy Owens
and their performances at the New World Jazz Stage with Donald
Walden.  Harrison and Owens discuss their past experiences and
involvement with jazz personalities including Kenny Barron, John
Carter, Hank Crawford, Eddie Daniels, Duke Ellington, Freddie
Hubbard, Howard Johnson, New York Jazz Sextet, Max Roach and Woody
Shaw. 

THE JAZZ OF DAVE BRUBECK.
     See THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY.
LC Purchase Collection
     Galaxy Attractions, 1960.
     Director: Bert Stern; Producer: Allan Green.
     85 mins., color, 16mm.                           FCA 9400-01
An award-winning documentary on the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in
Rhode Island, featuring Louis Armstrong, Dave Bailey, Danny
Barcelona, Chuck Berry, "Big" Maybelle, Bob Brookmeyer, Buck
Clayton, Bill Crow, Eric Dolphy, Eli's Chosen Six, Art Farmer,
Terry Gibbs, Urbie Green, Henry Grimes, Jimmy Giuffre, Jim Hall,
Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes, "Peanuts" Hucko, Mahalia Jackson, Hank
Jones, Jo Jones, Fred Katz, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita
O'Day, Oscar Pettiford, Rudy Powell, Max Roach, Sal Salvador,
George Shearing, Rex Stewart, Sonny Stitt, Jack Teagarden, Dinah
Washington, Ben Webster and Trummy Young.

JAZZ PARADES--FEET DON'T FAIL ME NOW.
     See AMERICAN PATCHWORK--SONGS AND STORIES OF AMERICA.  No.
101.

JAZZ PEOPLE.
     See FROM JUMPSTREET.

JAZZ PROFILES--JOE WILLIAMS.
Copyright Collection
     Productions in Tempo, Inc.,  1985.
     Director: Don McGlynn; Producer: Harold Robert Udkoff.
     57 mins., color/black & white, 1/2" videocassette.  VAA 6547
A melange of live performances, film and television clips of Joe
Williams, including footage of Albert Ammons, Count Basie and his
Orchestra, "Big" Bill Broonzy, Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, the
Benny Goodman Quartet, Pete Johnson, Andy Kirk and his Orchestra
and Jimmy Rushing.  Songs include "Avalon," "Boogie Woogie Dream,"
"Going to Chicago," "Guitar Shuffle," "I'm Coming Virginia," "Just
a Sittin' and a Rockin'," "Only a Moment Ago," "Rosetta" and
"Shake, Rattle and Roll" from the films or television shows Boogie
Woogie Dream (1941), Duke Ellington--Love You Madly (1967), For
Auld Lang Syne, Killer Diller (1948), Newport Jazz Festival 1962,
The Seven Lively Arts.  The Sound of Jazz (1957), Showtime at the
Apollo.  Revue in Rhythm and Stars Over Harlem (1954) and The
Subject is Jazz.  Blues (1958).  SEE ALSO Basin Street Revue, Jazz
Classics.  Nos. 108 and 113, Jazz Festival and Rock `n' Roll Revue,
as well as separate entries for cited titles.     

A JAZZ SESSION.
     See SASS AND BRASS.

JAZZ STARS OF THE FUTURE.  No. 101, Wayne Wayne and the Lido Jazz
Allstars.
Copyright Collection
     BMA/Brashear Productions, 1987.
     Director: Brian Lockwood.
     52 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette (Betamax).      VAB 0731
Performances featuring Eddie Ambrose, Max Bennett, Bob Moore, Ron
Shumake, Alex Taylor, Wayne and Gary Wing on the songs "Cafe Lido,"
"Crystal Silence," "Fried Bananas," "Katherine," "Loma,"
"Ornithology," "Straight No Chaser" and "The Summer Knows."

JAZZ STARS OF THE FUTURE.  No. 102, Paul Carman/Steve Crum Quintet.
Copyright Collection
     BMA/Brashear Productions, 1987.
     Director: Brian Lockwood; Producer: Gerri Jones.
     53 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAB 0636
Performances by the Quintet in various incarnations with Dave
Butcher, Carman, Crum, Eric Messerschmidt and Chris Stevens, and
special appearances by Bob Moore, Judy Street and Wayne Wayne. 
Songs include "Bean Pcurd," "Danny's All-Star Joint," "Gerri-
rigged," "A Jewel to be Shared," "Loma," "Parades," "Pelicans,"
"Rebecca Smiles" and "Thelonious Assault." 

JAZZ STARS OF THE FUTURE.  No. 103, Max Bennett/Freeway.
Copyright Collection
     BMA/Brashear Productions, 1987.
     Director: Brian Lockwood; Producer: Gerri Jones.
     55 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAB 0650
Showcases the combined efforts of Bennett, Tom Brechtlein, Grant
Geissman, Mark Hugengerger and Sam Riney through interviews and
performances of "The Car," "High Roller," "The Interceptor,"
"Jamaica," "Remember Me," "Samba Roca," "Star Flite" and "Sunday
Morning Samba."

JAZZ SUMMIT.
Copyright Collection
     Human Arts Association Productions, 1987.
     Director/Editor: Jacki Ochs.
     28 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBF 6845
A documentary on the first American tour of the Ganelin Trio, the
former Soviet Union's leading "free" jazz group, and the Rova
Saxophone Quartet, an American group from San Francisco, including
performances and interviews, with translations of the Russian.  The
influence of Willis Conover's jazz programming on Voice of America
as an artistic link comes out in discussions with the musicians. 
Personnel: Vladimir Chekasin, Vyacheslav Ganelin and Vladimir
Tarasov.

JAZZ--THE INTIMATE ART.
LC Purchase Collection
     Drew Associates/The Bell System, 1968.
     Producers: Robert Drew, Mike Jackson.
     55 mins., color, 16mm.                              FDA 9182
A documentary in the cinema-verite tradition which takes a close
look at four of America's great jazz musicians: Louis Armstrong
("Hello Dolly," "The Kinda Love Song," "Rose" and "The Saints");
Dave Brubeck ("I'm in a Dancing Mood" with Paul Desmond, Joe
Morello and Eugene Wright and "Light in the Wilderness"); Dizzy
Gillespie ("Swing Low Sweet Cadillac" with James Moody) and Charles
Lloyd ("Forest Flowers" with Keith Jarrett).

JAZZ THEN--DIXIELAND 1 and 2.
     See AMERICA'S MUSIC.

JAZZ TIME.
     See SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO.

JAZZ TO END HUNGER.
Copyright Collection
     Jazz to End Hunger, Inc., 1986.
     4 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                 VAA 7570
A press clip of the efforts of a collection of jazz personalities
to help raise money for the hungry in the U.S., including moments
from their performance of "Keep the Dream Alive" featuring a jazz
ensemble, orchestra, and chorus.  Includes short interviews with
Larry Carlton, Billy Eckstine and Carmen McRae.

JAZZ VOCALISTS.
     See FROM JUMPSTREET.

JAZZ--WHAT IT IS.
Copyright Collection
     Potatoe Productions/Fretless Music, 1988.
     Director: Harry Carnes.
     30 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAC 4473
Musician Randy Sabien narrates this program which focuses on
defining the terms and styles of jazz (swing, improvisation,
rhythm, melody, lead player, etc.).  Opens and closes with numbers
by Sabien's quartet.

JAZZAFRICA.
     See JAZZVISIONS.

JAZZMAKERS.  Marian McPartland.
Copyright Collection
     Chevron U.S.A. Inc., 1984.
     Director/Editor: Jackie Baldwin; Producers: Jackie
     Baldwin, Mariah Marvin; Screenwriter: Mariah Marvin;
     Camera: Robert Zagone.
     15 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBD 9059
Pianist Marian McPartland takes viewers through a "little quick
thumbnail history of jazz" and offers some personal insights into
her long career as a jazz musician.

THE JAZZNOST TOUR.
     See THE MOSCOW SAX QUINTET.

JAZZVISIONS.  All Strings Attached.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Executive Producer: Jack Lewis; Producer: Bonnie Burns;
     Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4340
A congregation of jazz guitarists John Abercrombie, Larry Carlton,
Larry Coryell, Tal Farlow and John Scofield play standards
including "All Blues" in a live performance at the Wiltern Theater
in L.A.  Billy Hart and John Patitucci back them up in the rhythm
section.

JAZZVISIONS.  Brazilian Knights and a Lady.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Directors: Sandi F. Fullerton, Louis J. Horvitz;
     Executive Producer: Jack Lewis; Producer: Bonnie Burns;
     Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4341
Ivan Lins and his band perform "Antes Que Seja Tarde."  Patti
Austin performs "Daquilo Que En Sei/Believe What I Say" and "The
Island."  Djavan performs "So Bashya."

JAZZVISIONS.  Echoes of Ellington Part 1.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Executive Producer: Jack Lewis; Producer: Bonnie Burns;
     Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4336
Introduced by Shelley Duvall, a jazz combo made up of Randy
Brecker, Ndugu Chancler, Bill Evans (saxophone), Robben Lee Ford,
Pete Jolly, Roger Kellaway, Tom Scott and Andy Simpkins perform
Duke Ellington standards "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (with
Dianne Reeves and O.C. Smith), "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-so" (with
Diane Reeves), "In a Sentimental Mood," "It Don't Mean a Thing,"
"I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" (with Dianne Reeves), "Mood
Indigo," "Prelude to a Kiss" and "Take the A Train" live at the
Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.

JAZZVISIONS.  Echoes of Ellington Part 2.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Executive Producer: Jack Lewis; Producer: Bonnie Burns;
     Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4337
Introduced by Shelley Duvall, a jazz combo made up of Randy
Brecker, Ndugu Chancler, Bill Evans (saxophone), Robben Lee Ford,
Pete Jolly, Roger Kellaway, Tom Scott and Andy Simpkins perform
Duke Ellington standards, including "Caravan," "It Don't Mean a
Thing," "Prelude to a Kiss" and "Rockin' in Rhythm" live at the
Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. 

JAZZVISIONS.  Implosions.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Director: Louis J. Horvitz; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis;
     Producer: Bonnie Burns; Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor. 
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4344
Recorded December 5, 1986, this video presents a live performance
of Randy Brecker, Stanley Clarke, Peter Erskine, Eric Gale, Roger
Kellaway, Frank Morgan, McCoy Tyner and Ernie Watts, with an
introduction by Bud Cort.  Numbers include "Green Dolphin Street,"
"Improv Solo," "Loverman," "Skylark," "Softly as in a Morning
Sunrise" and "Will You Still Be Mine."

JAZZVISIONS.  Jazzafrica.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Director: Sandi F. Fullerton; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis;
     Producer: Bonnie Burns; Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4339
Herbie Hancock performs live with Foday Musa Suso (playing the
doussn' gouni from Gambia) and Aiyb Dieng (playing the chantan from
Senegal) on "Truban" and other African-inspired compositions. 
Introduced by Mick Fleetwood. 

JAZZVISIONS.  Jump the Blues Away.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Director: Sandi F. Fullerton; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis;
     Producer: Bonnie Burns; Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4338
George Wendt introduces a live performance featuring Albert Collins
("Pretty Brown Eyes"), Etta James and Joe Walsh ("I'm Going Down").

JAZZVISIONS.  Latin Jazz.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Director: Louis J. Horvitz; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis;
     Producer: Bonnie Burns; Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4342
Features the family of drummers Sheila E., Pete Escovedo and Tito
Puente performing at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.  Numbers include
"El Rey del Timbale" and "Suenos del los Toreros."  Vocalists Jody
Ente and Claverton Jackson provide unusual Perrier bottle
accompaniment at one point. 

JAZZVISIONS.  The Many Faces of Bird.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Director: Louis J. Horvitz; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis;
     Producer: Bonnie Burns; Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4345
The music of Charlie Parker performed by an ensemble comprised of
Monty Budwick, Richie Cole, John Guerin, Lee Konitz, Lou Levy,
Bobby McFerrin, James Moody and Bud Shank live at the Wiltern
Theater in Los Angeles.  Numbers include "Billy's Bounce,"
"Confirmation," "Moose the Mooche," "Scrapple from the Apple" and
"Yardbird Suite."  Hosted by Rich Hall. 

JAZZVISIONS.  Rio Revisited.
Copyright Collection
     Jack Lewis Production/Bonnie Burns Productions, Inc., 1988.
     Director: Louis J. Horvitz; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis;
     Producer: Bonnie Burns; Associate Producer: Judy Zaylor.
     59 mins., color, 3/4" videocassette.                VBK 4343
A live performance at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles with
Antonio Carlos Jobim and his band playing "Agua de Beber," "Chega
de Saudade," "Desafinado," "Samba de Uma Nota So" and "Two Kites;"
with Gal Costa on "Bolero," "Corcovado," "Dindi," "Gabriela" and
"Wave;" with Danilo Perez on "Aguas de Marco," "Sabia" and "Samba
do Aviao" and with Paulo Jobim on "Samba de Soho."  Introduction by
Sonia Braga and Sergio Mendes.

JIMMIE LUNCEFORD AND HIS DANCE ORCHESTRA.
United Artists Collection
     Vitaphone Corp., 1937.
     Director: Joseph Henabery.
     10 mins., black & white, 3/4" videocassette.        VBG 6608
A music short featuring the title band with Myra Johnson and the
Three Brown Jacks.  Numbers include "It's Rhythm Coming to Life
Again," "Jazznocracy," "Nagasaki," "Rhythm Is Our Business" and
"You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes."  Personnel: Moses Allen,
Russell Bowles, Earl Carruthers, Jimmie Crawford, Elmer Crumbly,
Laforet Dent, Eddie Durham, Dan Grissom, Lunceford, Al Norris, Sy
Oliver, Willie Smith, Joe Thomas, Eddie Thomkins, Paul Webster and
Ed Wilcox.

JIMMY DORSEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
United Artists Collection
     Vitaphone Corp., 1938.
     Director: Lloyd French.
     9 mins., black & white, 35mm.          Ref. copy forthcoming
A music short in which the title act performs "Dusk in Upper
Sandusky," "I Love You in Technicolor" and "It's the Dreamer in Me"
with vocals by Bob Eberly and Evelyn Oak.  Personnel: Bobby Byrne,
Dorsey, Charles Frazier, Herbie Haymer, Roc Hillman, Sonny Lee, Don
Mathisen, Ray McKinley, Ralph Muzillo, Sam Rabinowich, Jack Ryan,
Shorty Sherock, Freddie Slack and Milt Yaner.

JITTERBUG PARTY.
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 103.

JIVE TALK DICTIONARY.
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 111.

JIVIN' IN BE-BOP.
AFI/Dudik Collections
     William D. Alexander Productions, 1947.
     Director: Leonard Anderson; Producer: William D. Alexander;
     Screenplay: Powell Lindsay; Photographer: Don Malkames;
     Editor: Gladys Brothers; Sound: Nelson Minnerly.
     59 mins., black & white, 35mm.                   FGC 3203-05
A unique glimpse of bebop in 1947 with Dizzy Gillespie and his
Orchestra onstage in a series of performances including some dance
routines, occasionally engaging in comic jive repartee with an
emcee identified variously as "Peanut Head" Jackson and Bart. 
Numbers include "Be Bop a Lula," "Boogie in C," "Boogie in D," "Bop
a Lee-ba," "Crazy About a Man" with Helen Humes, "Dizzy
Atmosphere," "Grosvenor Square," "He Beeped When He Shoulda
Bopped," "I Waited for You" with Kenny "Pancho" Hagood, "A Night in
Tunisia," "One Bass Hit," "Oop Bop Sh'Bam," "Ornithology," "Salt
Peanuts," "Shaw `Nuff," "Shoot Me a Little Dynamite Eight" and
"Things to Come."  Featuring Ralph Brown, Ray Brown, Dan Burley,
Dave Burns, Freddie Carter, Gil Fuller, Kenny Hagood, Benny Harris,
Helen Humes, Milt Jackson and John Lewis (of the as-yet unformed
Modern Jazz Quartet), Johnny and Henny, James Moody, Pancho and
Dolores, Frank Paparelli, Phil and Audrey, Daisy Richardson, Sahji,
Ray Sneed and Johnny Taylor.  SEE ALSO Jazz Classics.  No. 115. 

JOE, JOE.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Filmcraft Productions/Soundies Distributing Corp. of
     America, Inc., 1946.
     Director/Producer: William Forest Crouch.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FCB 2730
Performed by Noble Sissle.  On reel with several other Soundies.

JOE PASS SOLO JAZZ GUITAR.
Copyright Collection
     A Hot Licks Production, 1986.
     Director: Mark Kaplan.
     60 mins., color, 1/2" videocassette.                VAB 1594
An instructional video with Joe Pass teaching expansive aspects of
solo jazz guitar, including chord substitutions, turnarounds, lines
vs. scales and learning to create walking bass lines over chords,
with comping.

JOHN BIRKS DIZZY GILLESPIE.
     See JAZZ IN AMERICA.

JOHNNY GRIFFIN AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD.
Copyright Collection
     Myriad Media Productions, Inc./Bulldog Productions, Inc.,
     1981.
     Executive Producer: Howard Borris; Producer: Ben Sidran.
     97 mins., color, 3/4" videocassettes.            VBB 7392-94
Tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, known as the "little giant"
because of his instrument's big sound, has been living abroad for
many years.  On a return trip to the U.S. he was captured on video
in concert at the Village Vanguard.  The lineup includes Ray
Drummond, Ronny Mathews and Kenny Washington performing "Blues for
Gonzi," "Blues for Leslie," "56," "Jean Marie," "A Monk's Dream" (a
tribute to Thelonious Monk), "Susanita" and "When We Were One."

THE JOINT IS JUMPIN'.
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 107.

JORDAN JIVE.
     See TOOT THAT TRUMPET.

A JOYFUL NOISE.
     See SUN RA.

JUKE BOX SATURDAY NIGHT.
     See THE GOLDEN CLASSICS OF JAZZ.

JUMP THE BLUES AWAY.
     See JAZZVISIONS.

JUNCTION 88.
AFI/Dudik Collection
     Sack Amusement Enterprises, 1940?
     Camera: Don Malkames.
     50 mins., black & white, 35mm.                   FEA 4204-09
An all-black musical featuring Noble Sissle and his Orchestra with
Wyatt Clark, Bob Howard and "Pigmeat" Markham.  Includes the
numbers "Eagle Eye Blues," "Get Your House in Order," "Junction
88," "Off Beat Rhythm," "Somewhere Happy With You," "Walking With
Caroline" and "Where Does the Wind Go?"

JUNGLE JIG.
     See JAZZ CLASSICS.  No. 110.

JUST A-SITTIN' AND A-ROCKIN'.
AFI/Myrick Collection
     Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., 1945.
     3 mins., black & white, 16mm.                       FBC 4391
Performed by the Delta Rhythm Boys.  On reel with several other
Soundies.  SEE ALSO Jazz Classics.  No. 109.
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