jazz shorts

including ‘soundies,‘snader’ telescriptions, Lee Deforrest Productions and animation
‘Soundies’ were three minute films from the RCM corporation They were originally produced between 1940-46 for a visual juke box which were in bars and clubs across America. In fact an early forerunner of the video jukebox. (see' The Soundies' in A to Z docus)
Snader telescriptions started in 1950 and were used for fill- ins on television. Like 'soundies' and the Universal International shorts they have been repackaged over the years under various names and have become a valuable archive of early jazz on film. These 'soundies' and 'snaders' are listed alphabetically by title of song. They are also listed by artist.

Soundies
After Hours • with singer Herb Jeffries
Ain’t misbehavin’• with Fats Waller, Gene Cedric and Al Casey
Air Mail Special • with Count Basie
Air Mail Special • with Lionel Hampton
America I love with the Claude Thorne hill Orchestra
Bar Babble with Jimmy Dorsey
Barnyard Bounce • with Will Bradley and drummer Ray McKinley
Because I Love You with Luckey Millinder and his Band
BeeBee • with Tommy Dorsey
Bli-Blip •1942 • with Duke Ellington
Blues in the Night •1942 • with Cab Calloway
Blowtop Blues • 1945 with Cab Calloway
Blues in the Night with Cab Calloway
Boardwalk Boogle with Will Bradley
Boogie Woogie 1944 with Meade Lux Lewis
Boogie Woogie Dream 1941 with Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson
Buzz Me 1945 with Louis Jordan
A Case of the Blues with Maxine Sullivan with Gillespie and Benny Carter
Cab Calloway Medley
Caravan with the Mills Brothers
Cobb's Idea Lionel Hampton Band ( this may be a snader transcription)
Come to Baby Do with Nat King Cole
Close Shave with John Kirby
C Jam Blues • 1942 with Duke Ellington
Chilli and Beans Avoutie with Slim Gaillard
Contrast in Rhythm with Cecil Scott
Count Me Out 1946 with Red Allen J.C. Higginbotham
Crawl Red Crawl with Red Allen and J.C.Higginbotham
Deacon Jones 1944 with Wingy Manone
Don’t be a Baby,Baby 1946 with Joe Marsala
Down,Down,Down 1942 with Lois Jordan
Drink Hearty 1946 with Red allen an J C Higginbotham
Dunkin’ Bagel 1946 with Slim Gaillard
Dynamite O’Rooney 1946 with Slim Gaillard
Eager Beaver 1945 with Stan Kenton
Errand Boy for Rhythm 1946 with Nat King Cole
Five Guys Named Moe 1942 with Louis Jordan
Flamingo 1942 with Duke Ellington with Johnny Hodges soloing
Foo a Little Ballyhoo with Cab Calloway
Four or five Times with Lucky Millinder
Frim Fram Sauce 1945 with Nat King Cole
Fuzzy Wuzzy 1942 with Louis Jordan
Got a Penny, Benny 1946 with Nat King Cole
Harlem Serenade with Luckey Millinder
Hello Bill with
Hoboken Bounce • with Slim Gaillard
Honey chile • 1945 • with Louis Jordan
Honeysuckle Rose 1941 with Fats Waller
Hong Kong blues 1943 with Hoagy Carmichael
Hop,Skip and Jump • 1942 • with Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra
Hot Chocolate/ Cottontail 1941 with Duke Ellington
Hot Frogs • 1942 with Fats Waller
La Rosita with J immy Dorsey
House on 52nd Street • 1946 • with Henry Red Allen and J. C. Higginbotham
ILeft my Sugar in Salt Lake City • 1944 with Wingy Malone
Was Here When You Left Me • 1945 with Cab Calloway
If you Can't Smile and Say Yes •1944 with Louis Jordan
I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You • 1942 with Louis Armstrong
I’m a Shy Guy • 1943 with Nat King Cole
I’m Gonna Love That Guy • 1945 with Stan Kenton and June Christy
I’m Just a Lucky So and So • 1946 with Ray Baudoc
It’s Been a Long, Long Time • 1945 with June Christy and Stan Kenton
I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good with Ivy Anderson
I Want a Big Fat Mamma with Luckey Millinde
I Was Here When You Left Me with CabCalloway
Ja Da • 1942 with Harry Levine and his Dixieland Band
Jam Session• 1942 with Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Rex Stewart
Jammin' on a Panoram with Stan Kenton
Joint is Jumpin' with Fats Waller
Jordan Melody with Louis Jordan
Jordan Jive • 1944 with Louis Jordan
Juke Box Joe’s • 1944 with Wingy Malone
Jump Children • 1946 8 with The International Sweethearts of Rythm
Jumpin’ at the Jubillee• 1944 with Louis Jordan
Lady Be good • with Artie shaw
Laguna • 1946 with Slim Gaillard
Lazy Bones • Hoagy Carmichael
Let Me Off Uptown • 1942 with Gene Krupa Roy Eldridge and Anita O’Day
Lonesome Lover with Billie Eckstine
Low Down Dog • 1944 with Meade Lux Lewis
Minnie the Moocher • 1942 with Cab Calloway
Mop • 1946 with Red Allen and J C Hiigginbotham
My New Gown • 1944 with Lena Horne plus Albert Ammons, and Teddy Wilson
Never Too Old to Swing • 1945 with Tiny Grimes
Oh! Look • 1943 with Jimmy Dorsey
One Bass Hit • with Dizzy Gillespie
One is Never Too Old to Swing • 1945
• with Tiny Grimes
Old Man Mose • 1942 with Louis Jordan
Pudgy Boy with Les Hite
Ration blues • 1944with Louis Jordan
Reed Rapture • 1942 with Stan Kenton
Roll em’ • 1944 with Meade Lux Lewis
Romance Without Finance with Tiny Grimes
Rhythm on the river • 1944 with Wingy Manone
Saints go Marchin’ in • 1943 with Wingy Manone
Satin Doll • with Duke Ellington
She's Crazy with the Heat with International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Shine • 1942 with Louis Armstrong
Shine on your Shoes • 1946 with Ray Baudoc
Sing, Sing Sing • 1944 with Wingy Manone
Skunk Song • 1942 with Cab Calloway
Skylark • 1942 with Sonny Durham
Sleepy Time Down South • 1942 with Louis Armstrong
Some of these Days • 1942 with Maxine Sullivan
Southern Scandle • 1945 with Stan Kenton
Spirit of Boogie Woogie • 1942 with Meade Lux Lewis
Sugar Hill Masquerade • 1942 with Gene Krupa
Swingin’ on Nothin’ • 1942 with Louis Armstrong
T.G. Boogie Woogie • 1945 with Tiny Grimes
Take Me Back Baby • 1941 with Count Basie and Jimmy Rushing
That Man of Mine with The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Thanks for the Boogie ride • 1942 with Krupa, Eldridge and Anita O’Day
This Joint is Jumpin’ • 1942 with Fats Waller
Tillie’ • 1945 with Louis Jordan
Tired of Waiting for You • 1943 with Jimmy Dorsey
Unlucky Woman with Lena horne, Teddy Wilson, Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons
Vine Street Blues • 1943 with Wingy Monone
Virginia, Georgia and Caroline with Cab Calloway
Walkin’ with my Honey • 1945 with Cab Calloway
Waller Medley with Fats Waller
We the Cats • 1945 with Cab Calloway
Whole Bunch of Something • 1943 with Jimmy Dorsey
Your Feet’s Too Big • 1941 with Fats Waller

'Soundies' by artist

Albert Ammons
Boogie Woogie Dream

Artie Shaw
Lady Be Good
Gene Krupa
Let Me Off Uptown
Sugar Hill Masquerade
Thanks for the Boogie ride

Billy Eckstine
Lonesome Lover

Count Basie
Air Mail Special
Take Me Back Baby

Cab Calloway
Blowtop Blues
Blues in the night
Foo a Little Ballyhoo
I Was Here When You Left Me
Minnie the Moocher
Skunk Song
Virginia, Georgia and Caroline
Walkin’ with my Honey
We the Cats

Cecil Scott
Contrast in Rhythm

Charlie Spivak
Hop, Skip and Jump

Claude Thorne Hill Orchestra
America I love

Dizzy Gillespie
One Bass Hit

Duke Ellington
BliBlip
C Jam Blues
Flamingo
Hot Chocolate/ Cottontail
Jam Session
Satin Doll

Fats Waller
Ain’t misbehaving
Honeysuckle Rose
Hot Frogs
This Joint is Jumpin’
Waller Medley
Your Feet’s Too Big

Harry Levine
Ja Da

Jimmy Dorsey
Oh! Look
Tired of Waiting for You
Whole Bunch of Something
Bar Babble
La Rosita
Man's Thnat's Groovy

Herb Jeffries
After hours

Hoagy Carmichael
Hong Kong Blues
Lazy Bones

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Jump Children
She’s Crazy With the Heat
That Man of Mine

Ivy Anderson
I’ve Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good

Joe Marsala
Don’t be a Baby, Baby

John Kirby
Close Shave

Stan Kenton
Jammin' on a Panoram

June Christy with Stan Kenton
It’s Been a Long, Long Time
Tampico

Lena Horne
My New Gown
Unlucky Woman

Les Hite
Pudgy Boy

Lionel Hampton
Air Mail Special
Cobb’s Idea (Snader transcription?)

Louis Armstrong
I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You
Shine
Sleepy Time Down South
Swingin’ on Nothin’

Louis Jordon
Buzzme
Down, Down, Down
Five Guys Named Moe
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Honey Chile
If you Can’t Smile and Say Yes
Jordon Melody
Jordon Jive
Jumpin’ at the Jubillee
Old Man Mose
Ration Blues
Tillie’

Lucky Millinder
Because I love you
Harlem Serenade
Want a Big Fat Mamma
Hello Bill
Shout Sister Shout
Four or five Times

Meade Lux Lewis
Boogie Woogie
Low Down Dog
Roll ‘em
Spirit of Boogie Woogie

Maxine Sullivan
A Case of the Blues
Some of these Days

The Mills Brothers
Caravan

Nat King Cole
Come to Baby Do
Errand Boy for Rhythm
Frim Fram Sauce
Got a Penny Benny
I’m a Shy Guy

Ray Baudoc
I’m Just a Lucky So and So
Shine on your Shoes

Red Allen with J. C. Higginbotham
Count me out
Crawl Red Crawl
Drink Hearty
House on 52nd Street
Mop

Slim Gaillard
Dunkin’ Bagel
Dynamite O’Roony
Chilli Beans and Avouti
Hoboken Bounce
Laguna

Stan Kenton
Eager Beaver
I’m Gonna Love That Guy
Reed Rapture
Southern Scandal
It’s Been a Long, Long Time with June Christie
Tampico with June Christie

Sonny Durham
Skylark

Tiny Grimes
One is Never Too Old to Swing
Romance Without Finance
T.G Boogie Woogie

Tommy Dorsey
BeeBee

Will Bradley
Barnyard Bounce
Boardwalk Boogle

Wingy Manone
Deacon Jones
I Left my Sugar in Salt Lake City
Juke Box Joe’s
Rhythm on the River
Saints go Marchin’ in
Sing, Sing, Sing
Vine Street Blues

Snader transcriptions
In 1950's the Snader corporation produced three minute films featuring popular artistes of the day including numerous jazz musicians for use as fill- ins on television

Always You • Nat King Cole
America, I Love You • Claude Thornhill
American Patrol • Red Nichols
Andy’s Boogie • with Charlie Barnet
Angel Eyes • with Heb Jeffries
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home • with Herb Jeffries
Back Room Blues with Red Nichols and his Five Pennies
Basie Boogie with Count Basie, Wardell Gray, Buddy DeFranco, Freddie Green and Joe Jones
Basie’s Conversation same as above but Gus Johnson in place of Jo Jones
Basin Street Blues • with Jack Teagarden
Beulah’s Boogie with Lionel Hampton’ Orchestra
Big Noise From Winnetka • with Billy Butterfield, Jess Stacy, Matty Matlock, Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc
Blacksmith Blues with Jack Teagarden
Bongo Interlude 1951 with Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra
Brass Bell 1950 with the Fire House Five
Calloway Boogie 1950 with Cab Calloway
Calypso Blues 1951 with Nat King Cole
Caravan 1950 with Charlie Barnet
Caravan 1952 with Duke Ellington
Cherokee 1950 with Charlie Barnet
Cobb’s Idea 1951 with Lionel Hampton ( this may be a soundie)
Complainin’ 1952 with The Bobcats
Conception 1951• with George Shearing
Daddy 1952 with Bobby Troup
Dark Eyes • Jack Teagarden
Ding Dong Baby 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Down yonder 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Everybody Loves My Baby 1951 with The Firehouse Five
Firehouse Stomp 1950 with The Firehouse Five
Flamingo 1950 with Herb Jeffries
For Sentimental Reasons • 1951 with Nat King Cole
Georgia on my Mind • 1952 with JackTeagarden
Goat Blues • 1951 with Pete Daily and his Chicagoans
The Hawk Talks 1952 with Duke Ellington
ICan’t Give You Anything But love • 1950 with Cab Calloway
ICover the Waterfront • 1950 with Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour quartet
ICried for You • 1952 sung by Helen Humes with Count Basie, Wardell Gray and Clark Terry
If I Could Be With You • 1952 as above
I’ll Be Around • 1951 with George Shearing
I’ll Never Smile Again • 1951 with George Shearing
Imagination • 1950 with June Christy
I'm a Shy Guy •with Nat King Cole
Jack Armstrong Blues • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Little Girl • 1951 with Nat King Cole
Love You like Mad Love You Like Crazy •1952 with Lionel Hampton
Lover • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Loves Got Me in a Crazy Mood •1951 with the Bobcats with Billie Butterfield
March of the Bobcats • as above
Midnightsun •1951 with Lionel Hampton
Minnie the Moocher •1950 with Cab Calloway
The Mooch • 1952 with Duke Ellington
Mood Indigo • 1952 with Duke Ellington
Move • 1951 with George Shearing
My Old Flame • 1951 with Charlie Barnet
Nature Boy • 1951 with Nat King Cole
Nobody’ Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
One for my Baby 1950 with Cab Calloway
One O’Clock Jump • 1950 with Basie sextet with Wardell Gray and Clark Terry
Panama • 1951 with the Bobcats with Billie Butterfield and Matty Matlock
Perdido • 1952 with Sarah Vaughan
Red River Valley • 1950 with Firehouse Five
Rockin’ Chair • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Route 66 • 1951 with Nat King Cole
Savoy Blues • 1951 with Bobcats with Butterfield and Matty Matlock
Skyliner • 1950 with Charlie Barnet
Slide Hampton Slide • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Solitude •1950 with Duke Ellington
Sophisticated Lady • 1952 with Duke Ellington
South • 1950 with the Firehouse Five
S’posin’ • 1950 with June Christy
Stars Fell on Alabama • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
Swedish Pastry • 1952 with George Shearing
Sweet Lorraine • 1951 with Nat King Cole
T.V .Special • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Taking a Chance on Love • 1950 with June Christy
That’s a Plenty • 1952 with Jack Teagarden
That’s My Girl • 1951with Nat King Cole
That’s What Makes the World ‘Round •1952 with Jack Teagarden
These Things I Offer You • 1952 with Sarah Vaughan
Three Blind Mice • 1950 with Red Nichols and his Five Pennies
Too Young • 1951 with Nat King Cole
The Trouble with Me is You • 1951 with Nat King Cole
V.I.P. Boogie • 1952 with Duke Ellington
Vibe Boogie • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Who Cares • 1951 with Lionel Hampton
Who’s Sorry Now • 1951 with Bobcats with Butterfield and Matty Matlock
Wolverine Blues • 1952 Jack Teagarden
Youre Mine,You •1952 with Sarah Vaughan
You’re Not the Kind • 1952 with Sarah Vaughan

'snaders' by artist

Billy Butterfield
Big Noise From Winnetka

Cab Calloway
Calloway Boogie
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
Minnie the Moocher
One For My Baby
St Jame's Infirmary

Claude Thornhill
America, I Love you

Charlie Barnet
Andy’s Boogie
Caravan
Cherokee
My Old Flame
Skyliner

Count Basie
Basie Boogie
Basie’s Conversation
I;f I Could Be With You
I Cried For You
One O’ Clock Jump

Duke Ellington
Caravan
The Hawk Talks
The Mooch
Mood Indigo
Solitude
Sophisticated Lady
That’s My Girl
V.I.P Boogie

Lionel Hampton’ Orchestra
Beulah’s Boogie
Bongo Interlude
Cobb’s idea
Midnight Sun
Ding Dong Baby
Love You Like Mad Love You Like Crazy
Slide Hampton Slide
T.V Special
Vibe Boogie
Who Cares

The Fire House Five Plus Two
Brass Bell
Everybody Loves my Baby
Firehouse Stomp
Red River Valley
South
Hook and Ladder Blues

Herb Jeffries
Angel Eyes
Baby Won’t you Please Come Home
Flamingo

Red Nichols
American Patrol
Back Room Blues
Entrance of the Gladiators
Three Blind Mice
Battle Hymn of the Republic

Jack Teagarden
Basin Street Blues
Blacksmith Blue
Down Yonder
Georgia on my Mind
Jack Armstrong Blues
Lover
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Rockin’ Chair
Stars Fell on Alabama
That’s a Plenty
That’s What Makes the World ‘Round
Wolverine Blues
Dark Eyes

Nat King Cole
Always You
Because of Rain
Calypso Blues
For Sentimental Reasons
I’m a Shy Guy
Little Girl
Nature Boy
Route 66
Sweet Lorraine
Too Young
The Trouble with Me is You
This is My Night to Dream
Home
That's My Girl
Mona Lisa
You Call it Madness

The Bobcats
Complainin’
Love’s Got Me in a Crazy Mood
March of the Bobcats
Muscat Ramble
Panama
Savoy Blues
Who’s Sorry Now

George Shearing
Conception
I’ll Be Around
I’ll Never Smile Again
Move
Swedish Pastry

Bobby Troup
Daddy

Mel Torme
Blue Room
April Showers
Youre Driving Me Crazy
You Ought to Be in Pictures

Pete Daily
Daily Double
Goat Blues
Over the Waves
O Tannenbaum
Please Don't Talk About Me

Peggy Lee
I Cover the Waterfront
II Don't know Enough About you
I May be Wrong
I Only Have Eyes For You
What More Can a Woman Do

Helen Humes
I Cried For You
I Could Be With You

June Christy
He's Funny That Way
Imagination
S’posin’
Taking a Chance on Love
All God's Children Got Rhythm

Sarah Vaughan
Perdido
The Nearness of You
These Things I Offer You
You’re Mine, You
You’re Not the Kind

From the forties until the mid- fifties Universal International made a series of short musical features

BILLIE HOLIDAY-COUNT BASIE-SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

BUDDY RICH
USA 1948 • 15mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Terry Gibbs and Allen Eager

WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1948 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Shorty Rogers and Stan Getz ( see posters)

WOODY HERMAN'S VARIETIES
USA 1951 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Bill Perkins

SARAH VAUGHAN AND HERB JEFFRIES
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with the Kid Ory Creole Jazz band

BILLY MAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA1952 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

CAMPUS CAPERS
USA 15 mins • Directed by Reginald Le Borg
with Jack Teagarden and his Band

CLAUDE THORNHILL AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

CHARLIE BARNET AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1947 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

CLAUDE THORNHILL AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

COOL AND CRAZY
USA 1956 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
Amongst others this one features the Chico Hamilton Quintet with Jim Hall and the Buddy Defranco Quartet with Pete Jolly at the piano

DEEP PURPLE;GENE KRUPA
USA1949 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

HARRY JAMES AND HIS MUSIC MAKERS
USA 1943 • 15mins • Directed by Will Cowan

JIMMY DORSEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1948 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

JIVIN' JAM SESSION
USA1942 • 15 mins • Directed by Reginald Le Borg
with Sonny Dunham and his Orchestra

LIONEL HAMPTON WITH HERB JEFFRIES
USA 1955 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

LIONEL HAMPTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1949 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

NAT KING COLE STORY
USA 1955 • 18 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
Universal made a number of these shorts featuring Nat King Cole

RADIO MELODIES
USA 1943 • 15 mins • Directed by Reginald Le Borg
features the Stan Kenton Orchestra

RED NICHOLS AND HIS FIVE PENNIES
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

RHYTHM MASTERS
USA 1948 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
featuring Jack Teagarden,Sonny Dunham, Louis Prima and Stan Kenton

RIOT IN RHYTHM
USA 1957 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Harry James

SALUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Ellington's classic fifties band with Hodges, Harry Carney, Ray Nance and Lawrence Brown etc.

SALUTE TO SONG
USA 1957 • 15 mins • Directed by ??
with Cal Tjader Quintet

TEX BENEKE AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA1948 • 15 mins • Directed Will Cowan

SYMPHONY IN SWING
USA 1949 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
with Duke Ellington

SAUTER-FINEGAN ORCHESTRA
USA 1955 • 18 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

TERESA BREWER AND THE FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
USA 1951• 16 mins • Directed by Will Cowan

Apart from Universal shorts memtioned above Paramount, Columbia and 20th Century Fox all made musical shorts featuring popular bands of the day (See TV)

Other Shorts

(ABC ) All Black Cast. Between !910 and 1960 hundreds of films were produced featuring all black casts. These were made for segregated audience and were often made by black film companies. With the coming of sound more and more black musicians were filmed in a varity of settings. ( see also features)

ALL COLORED VAUDEVILLE SHOW (ABC)
USA 1935 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with Adelaide Hall and the Nicholas Brothers

SISSLE AND BLAKE (ABC)
USA 1923 • 6 mins Directed by Lee De Forrest
Perhaps one of the first films featuring black jazz musicians. The singer Noble Sissle with accompanist Eubie Blake.
Lee Deforrest in 1920 invented a system of putting sound on to film and his New york studios made hundreds of short sound films between 1921 and 1926.

BOOGIE WOOGIE DREAM
USA 1947 • 13 mins • Directed by Hans Burger
Black cast film with Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson,Teddy Wilson, Lena Horne (vocal)
This film has been split into soundies ( see above)

BLACK AND BLUE (ABC)
USA 1932 •
With Louis Armstrong

BLACK AND TAN (ABC)
USA 1929 • Directed by Dudley Murphy
Duke Ellington's very first screen appearance

BUNDLE OF BLUES (ABC)
USA 1933 • 8 mins
with Duke Ellington and Ivy Anderson singing 'Stormy Weather'

CAB CALLOWAY JITTERBUG PARTY (ABC)
USA 1934 • 8 mins • Directed by Fred Waller

COOTIE WILLIAMS AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1944 • 10 mins •
with Bud Powell

DEVILED HAMS (ABC)
USA 1937 • 10 mins •
with Erskine Hawkins and his Band

DON REDMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA (ABC)
USA 1934 • 10 mins •

SYMPHONY IN BLACK (ABC)
USA1934 • 9 mins • Directed by Fred Waller
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra with Billie Holiday

DOWN BEAT REVIEW
USA 1955 • 30 mins •
with Count Basie, Nat King Cole and Dina Washington

DUKE ELLINGTON
USA 1943 • 9 mins • Directed by Jay Bonafield
with Carney, Webster, Hodges, Ray Nance etc.

EBONY PARADE (ABC)
USA 1947 •
Compilation of soundies with Basie, Calloway etc.

EUBIE BLAKE PLAYS (ABC)
USA 1922 ? • 4 mins •
an early Lee de Forrest production

FLAMINGO (ABC)
USA 1947 • ? mins~
Black cast film with Herb Jeffries and Lena Horne

FLICKER UP (ABC)
USA 1946 • ? mins •
Black Cast short with Billie Eckstine

FRENZY (ABC)
USA 1946 •
Black cast short with Herb Jeffries and Dorothy Dandridge

FUZZY WUZZY (ABC)
USA 1945 • ? mins •
Black cast short with Louis Jordan and Meade Lux Lewis

GENE KRUPA; America's Ace Drummer and his Orchestra
USA 1941 • 10 mins • Directed by Leslie Rouse

HARLEM FOLLIES OF 1949 (ABC)
USA 1950 •
Black cast short with John Kirby and his band plus Sid Catlett and his Band

HARLEM IS HEAVEN (ABC)
USA 1932 • 10 mins
Black cast short with Eubie Blake

HEP CAT SERENADE (ABC)
USA 1945•
Black cast short with Louis Jordon and his Band

HOAGY CARMICHAEL
USA1939 • 10 mins • Directed by Leslie Roush
This short features Hoagy (backed by Jack Teagarden and his band) singing a selection of his songs

JIMMY DORSEY
USA 1940 • 10 mins • Directed by Leslie Roush

MURDER IN SWINGTIME
USA 1937 • 10 mins • Directed by Arthur Dreifuss
feature the Les Hite Band

NIGHT IN HARLEM
USA 1947 • 10 mins •
features Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra

OOP BOOP SH'BAM
USA1947 • 10 mins •
with Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra

FOUR HITS AND A MISTER
UK 1962 • 14 mins • Directed by Douglas Hickox
Ackar Bilk and his Band

PLAYBACK
USA 1963 • various mins• Directed by Tim Kiley
a series of promotional films featuring Andre Previn Trio, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Duke Ellington and his Band, Mahalia Jackson, Teddy Wilson

PIE PIE BLACKBIRD
USA 1932 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
features the Eubie Blake Band

DIXIELAND JAMBOREE
USA 1935 • 9 mins
with Cab Calloway, Adelaide Hall

SMASH YOUR BAGGAGE (ABC)
USA 1933 • 10 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
Song and dance with baggage handlers at Grand Central Station with Roy Eldridge, Dickie Wells and Otto Hardwicke

TOOT THAT TRUMPET (ABC)
USA 1946 •
with Louis Jordan and his band

THAT'S THE SPIRIT.
USA 1933 • 12 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
A short featuring the Noble Sissle Band with Buster Bailey, Wilbur De Paris, Cora La Redd and the Washboard Serenaders.

TED HEATH AND HIS MUSIC
UK 1961 • 10 mins • Directed by Robert Henryson
The great British Big Band features Don Lusher, Bob Efford, John Hawksworth and Ronnie Verrell

WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1938 • 9mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with vocalist Lee Wiley

WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET
USA 1992 • 5 mins • Directed Barbara McCollough
with David Murray

Animation

MINE ALL MINE
UK 1969 • 5 mins • Directed by Dereck Phillips
Music by Peter Ind. The director is also, a very fine jazz guitarist ane a one time associate of Ind

BOOGIE DOODLE
Canada 1948 • 4 mins • Directed by Norman McLaren
Music by Albert Ammons, Red Allen and J C Higgenbotham

BEGONE DULL CARE
Canada 1949 • 8 mins • Directed by Norman McLaren
Music by a very young Oscar Peterson

MINNIE THE MOOCHER
USA 1932 • 8 mins • Directed by Dave Fleischer
Betty Boop cartoon with an animated Cab Calloway struttin' his stuff

SNOW WHITE
USA 1933 • 6 mins • Directed by Richard Fleischer
Wonderful Betty Boop cartoon with Cab Calloway

THE THREE BOPS
USA • 1956 • 8 mins • Directed by Fritz Freleng
jazz composed and played by Shorty Rogers (tpt)

PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE
USA • 1975 • 4 mins • Directed by John Hubley
Music compoesed by Benny Carter and played by the Mel Lewis / Thad jones Band