|
contents | jazz | |||||||||||||
| Rare Jazz Films at The 40th Annual Jazz Record Collectors’ Bash FRIDAY, JUNE 27 @ 8:00 PM Waring's Pennsylvanians – Vitaphone 1927 The Happiness Boys, Billy Jones & Ernie Hare – Vitaphone 1927 Eddie Peabody & Jimmie Maisel – Vitaphone 1928 An hour selection of 1929 – 1938 Pathetone band and singer shorts, including Sophie Tucker, Teddy Brown, Roy Fox, Jack Hylton, Al Bowlly, Val Rosing, Bert Lahr & Buddy Rogers, Gracie Fields, Covent Garden Band, Jack Payne, and Duke Ellington Saturday, June 28th @ 4:30 PM Betty Boop's Penthouse – Paramount 1932 I Came First - Herman Timberg & Co. – Paramount 1929 Don Redman and his Orchestra – Vitaphone 1934 Butler & Brennan – Vitaphone 1929 VAUDEVILLE REEL with Al Trahan - Vitaphone 1934 Swing Banditry – Georgie Stoll - MGM 1936 Clips from otherwise lost NITE CLUB - Paramount 1929 (w/ Fanny Brice, Pat Rooney, Sr., Bobbe Arnst) Clips from otherwise lost MR. BROADWAY – Showmans 1933 (w/ Isham Jones, Harry Rose, Joe Frisco, Bert Lahr, actual NYC club scenes) WE FAW DOWN – Laurel & Hardy – Hal Roach 1928. With original Vitaphone music and sound effects track Saturday, June 28th @ 8:00 to 10:00 PM Jazz collector and film historian David Weiner will present two hours of rare film and TV clips, showcasing jazz and pop artists of the 1920s through the 1960s. Among the featured performers will be soloists Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Red Nichols, Rex Stewart, Joe Venuti, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart, Buddy Tate, Eddie Shu, Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich; the big bands of Harry James, Vincent Lopez, and Roy Fox; and vocalists Adelaide Hall, Jean Sablon, Lee Wiley, the Mills Brothers and Jimmy Durante. Plus vintage cartoons and jitterbug dancing! _ THE VITAPHONE PROJECT was founded in 1991 and seeks out lost 16" soundtrack discs and mute film elements of 1926-30 sound-on-disk talkie shorts and features for restorations. To date, over 4000 disks have been found, and over 100 shorts and 10 features have been restored, in cooperation with UCLA, Warner Brothers, BFI, The Library Of Congress, and private collectors. Friday:(4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m) Ron Hutchinson, co-founder of The Vitaphone Project, will present a largely previously unseen collection of early sound jazz and vaudeville short subjects. Ron will be showing a new batch of rare 1929-38 musical British Pathetone talkie shorts and more early sound Vitaphone vaudeville, comedy and band shorts. Saturday (8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.) Jazz collector and film historian David Weiner will present two hours of rare film and TV clips, showcasing jazz and pop artists of the 1920s through the 1960s. Among the featured performers will be soloists Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Red Nichols, Rex Stewart, Joe Venuti, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart, Buddy Tate, Eddie Shu, Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich; the big bands of Harry James, Vincent Lopez, and Roy Fox; and vocalists Adelaide Hall, Jean Sablon, Lee Wiley, the Mills Brothers and Jimmy Durante. Plus vintage cartoons and jitterbug dancing! write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |