History of Jazz
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
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 1: Ernie Smith Presentation Reels
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca 1940s-1961
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 491.2-2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000033720]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: b&w, a compilation reel created by Ernie Smith

1. Music in America, An amalgam of snippets, including: behind the scenes at Tin Pan Alley; Perry Como singing "Now"; "Your Hit Parade" excerpt; George Gershwin at the piano playing "I Got Rhythm"; Benny Goodman Orchestra; Dixieland Jass Band playing "Livery Stable Blues"; comments by narrator, "jazz is synonymous with cheap music"; a shot of some early books on jazz includingJazzmen and The Hot Discography; Benny Goodman as guest lecturer at Juilliard; Art Tatum at The Three Dueces; a scene at Eddie Condon's with Wild Bill Davison, Davie Tough and Brad Gowans.

2. "Honky Tonk Train"

Copyright: 1961

Performer(s): Meade Lux Lewis

3. "Things to Come"

Copyright: 1946

Performer(s): Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Milt Jackson on vibes

4. "Back O'Town Blues"

Copyright: ca. early 1950s

Performer(s): Louis Armstrong All-Stars, vocal by Armstrong, Teagarden absent

5. The Sound of Jazz, excerpt

Copyright: 1957

Corporate Creator: CBS, The Seven Lively Arts (Studio 58)

Producer: Robert Herridge

Director: Jack Smight

Performer(s): Jimmy Rushing vocals, the Count Basie Orchestra, narration by John Crosby

Song Title(s): "I Left My Baby"

6. Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, ca. late 1940s

Video reference copy