Black and Tan
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 491.14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000033233]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 686f., b&w, a musical short featuring various performers

Copyright: 1929 Performance Date:

Corporate Creator: RKO Productions, by arrangement with Irving Mills

Director: Dudley Murphy

Performer(s): Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra; Hodges, Bigard, Carney (reeds), Whetsol, Williams, Jenkins (trumpets), Nanton, Tizol, (trombones), Ellington, Guy, Braud, Greer (rhythm), with Fredi Washington, Hall Johnson Choir and The Five Hot Shots (male dancers)

Song Title(s):

1. "Black and Tan Fantasy", Whetsol on trumpet

2. "The Duke Steps Out", Five Hot Shots

3. "Black Beauty", Five Hot Shots

4. "The Duke Steps Out", Five Hot Shots

5. "Black Beauty", Five Hot Shots

6. "Cotton Club Stomp", dance by Fredi Washington

7. "Hot Feet", dance by the Cotton Club Chorus Girls

8. "Same Train", vocals Hall Johnson Choir

9. "Black and Tan Fantasy", vocals Hall Johnson Choir