Symphony in Black
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 2: Additional Titles
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 491.29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
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content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 345f., b&w

Copyright: 1935

Corporate Creator: Paramount Pictures, distributed by UM&M TV Corp.

Producer: Adolph Zukor

Director: Fred Waller

Performer(s): Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, personnel: aumented orchestra includng: Hardwick, Hodges, Bigard, Carney;, Whetsol, Williams, Jenkins; Nanton, Tizol, Brown; Ellington, Guy, Braud, Greer, vocals by Billie Holiday, dances featuring Snake Hips Tucker and Bessie Dudley

Song Title(s): "Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life"

1. The Laborers - solos by Brown, Hodges

2. A Triangle: Dance, Jealousy, Blues - solos by Brown, Cootie, Barney, Nanton; Tucker and Dudley, vocals by Billie Holliday

3. A Hymn of Sorrow - solo possibly by Cootie Williams

4. Harlem Rhythm - Merry-Go-Round, solo by Jenkins, dancing by Snake Hips Tucker

Video reference copy