St. Louis Blues
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
label: Collection Collector
content: Smith, Ernie
label: Collection Performer
content: Webster, Ben
label: Collection Performer
content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
label: Collection Performer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Performer
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
label: Collection Performer
content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
label: Collection Performer
content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
label: Collection Performer
content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
label: Collection Performer
content: Davis, Miles
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 491.26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000033134]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: b&w, an excerpt from the short film of the same name featuring a brief scripted vignette

Copyright: 1929

Corporate Creator: Gramercy Studios, RKO Radio Pictures, Dudley Murphy's Jazz Classics, Warner Brothers

Producer: W.C. Handy

Director: Dudley Murphy

Performer(s): Bessie Smith, Jimmy Mordecai, Isabel Washington, James P. Johnson and Orchestra: Joe Smith, Russell Smith (tp); Charlie Green (tb); Buster Bailey (cl, as); Happy Valdwell (ts); Charlie Dixon or Bernard Addison (bj & g); Harry Hall (bs); Kaiser Marshall (dm)

Song Title(s):

1. "St. Louis Blues

2. "Rhapsody in Blue", excerpt

Video reference copy