ACCENT ON GIRLS
USA 1936 • 9mins • Directed by Fred Waller
with Ina Ray Hutton
ADELAIDE HALL Sophisticated Lady
UK 1990 • 50 mins • Produced by John Jeremy • Directed
by David Mingay and David Robinson
In concert with the Mike Pyne Trio.Pyne (pno) Dave Green (bass) Ron Hetherington (drums)and Benny Waters (sax)
ALBERTA HUNTER; MY CASTLE'S ROCKIN'
USA 1988 • 58 mins • Directed by Stuart Goldman
Film about the blues and jazz singer featured in "Remember My Name"
(see features) also; docus for a clip from this film)
ALBERTA HUNTER ; LIVE AT THE SMITHONIAN INSTITUTE
USA 1982 • 58 mins •
with Gerald Cook (pno) Jimmy Lewis ( bass)
ANITA ELLIS; FOR THE RECORD
USA1980 • 28 mins • Directed by Tony Silver Anita Ellis performs in The Joe Louis Story from 1953 with Ellis Larkins (piano) Filmbuffs might like to know that Anita ghosted the singing voice for Rita Hayworth in "Gilda"
ANYTHING ELSE
USA 2003 • 108 mins • Directed by Woody Allen
Another great sound track from Allen including Billie Holiday, Lester
Young and Teddy Wilson.
The film features vocalist Diana Krall on screen singing 'It Could Happen To You'. (see below)
BILLIE HOLIDAY; The Long Night of Lady Day
UK 1984 • 92 mins • Directed by John Jeremey (see Lady Day)
BILLIE ON BILLIE
UK 2002 • 50 mins • Directed by Paul Kerr
Film based on some late interviews with Billie Holiday with clips from
her first screen appearance with Duke Ellington and her late UK appearance
on 'Chelsea at Nine'
BILLIE HOLIDAY: SENSATIONAL LADY (DVD)
UK 2001 • 60 mins • Directed by David F. Tufnell
BILLIE HOLIDAY (see Strange Fruit)
BILLIE HOLIDAY; THE MANY FACES OF ( see LADY DAY)
ELLA FITZGERALD; SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR
USA 1999 • 89 mins • Directed by Charlotte Zwern
Very good docu from the maker of STRAIGHT, NO CHASER and narrated by Tony
Bennett
ELLA FITZGERALD
UK 1964 (TV) • 47 mins • Directed by Philip Casson
with Oscar Peterson (pno) Ray Brown (bass) and Ed Thigpen (drums)
ELLA FITZGERALD
USA 1966 (TV) • 52 mins
with the Duke Ellington Orchestra
ELLA FITZGERALD IN LONDON
UK 1965 • 45 mins • (p)
with the Johnny Spence Orchestra including Tubby Hayes, Kenny Clare, Keith
Christie and Harry Klein
GIRLS IN THE BAND (DVD available) USA
2012 • ? mins • Directed by Judy Chaikin
New docu covering the history of women in jazz . See trailer below
HAZEL SCOTT
The forties singer and pianist made a number of films and television appearances including; BROADWAY RHYTHM (1944 ) • I DOOD IT (1943) • RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945) • THE HEATS ON (1943)
Below Hazel Scott plays with her trio featuring Charles Mingus
HERE'S TO LIFE; SHIRLEY HORN
1992 • 60mins
Docu about the great singer with Quincy Jones, Carmen McRae and Johnny
Mandel
HERE'S TO LIFE; SHIRLEY HORN
1992 • 60mins
Docu about the great singer with Quincy Jones, Carmen McRae and Johnny
Mandel
JAZZ IS MY NATIVE LANGUAGE; A PORTRAIT OF TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI
USA 1983 • 60 mins • Directed by Renee Cho
with Lew Tabackin. Film of the Japanese American pianist, composer and
big band leader.
JAZZ WOMEN
USA / Italy • 2001• Directed by Gabriella Morandi
with Abbey Lincoln, Annie Ross, Dakota Staton and Etta James
JAZZ WOMEN ON VIDEO: FOREMOTHERS 1932-1952
28 mins •
with Nina Mae McKinney and Eubie Blake, Helen Humes with Count Basie,
Maxine Sullivan, Ida Cox, Sister Rosetta
Thorpe with Lucky Millinder, Billie Holiday with Basie,
Rita Rio & Her Mistresses Of Rhythm, Ada Leonard's All-
American Girl Orchestra & The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm
JESSICA WILLIAMS in Solo Performance
USA 1998 • Directed by Paul Marshall
LADY DAY;The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
USA 1991 • 60 mins • Directed by Matthew Sieg
with Harry Edison, Buck Clayton, Annie Ross and Carmen McRae
LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL
USA 1994 • 60 mins • Directed by Rochelle Calhoun
Film version of the stage play with Kimberly Herbert in the role of Holiday
MARIAN MCPARTLAND: IN GOOD TIME (DVD available from http://www.filmsbyhuey.com/films/in-good-time/.
USA • 2011 • 85 mins • Directed by Huey
with Billy Taylor, Elvis Costello, Dave Brubeck, Diana Krall, Bill Frisell, Nnenna Freelon, Renee Rosnes, Dick Hyman
(see docus page for a trailer to this film)
MARY LOU WILLIAMS; MUSIC ON MIND
USA 1989 • 57 mins • Directed by Joanne Burke
Film of the great pianist and composer with Gillespie and Buddy Tate
MAXINE SULLIVAN: LOVE TO BE LOVED
USA 1990 • 48 mins • Directed by Greta Schiller
Wonderful clips of the great singer with Armstrong. Plus in concert with
the Scott Hamilton Quintet and in the studio with Dick Hyman, Mel Lewis,
Major Holley and Seldon Power
NINA SIMONE AT RONNIE SCOTT
UK 1984 • 55 mins
Includes interviews as well performances at the club
RUBY AND TINY, HELL DIVIN’ WOMEN
USA 1988 • 30 mins • Directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea
Weiss
below are the 'International Sweethearts of Rhythm
SARAH VAUGHAN; THE DEVINE ONE (DVD)
USA 1991 • 60 mins • Directed by Matthew Seig
with Roy Haynes, Billy Eckstine and Joe Williams
SARAH VAUGHAN ; THE SARAH VAUGHAN STORY
USA 1991 • 57 mins • Directed by Toby Byron.
SARAH VAUGHAN : LIVE
USA 1984 • 55mins • Director by Phil Olsman
A concert featuring Sarah Vaughan with a special appearance
by Joe Williams.
STRANGE FRUIT
USA 2002 • 57 mins • Directed by Joel Katz
Docu about the famous poem made famous by Billie Holiday with music by
Don Byron
TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI
1984 • 58 mins (P)
The Big Band with Lew Tabackin (tnr)
(see Jazz is My Native Language)
WILD WOMEN DON'T HAVE THE BLUES
USA 1989 • 58 mins • Directed by Christine Dall
Film about early female jazz singers including Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey,
Ethel Waters, Alberta Hunter and Ida Cox
WOMEN IN JAZZ ( TV SERIES)
USA 1981 • Produced by Burril Crohn
These films were introduced, amongst others, by Carmen McRae and Marian
McPartland and featured Helen Humes, Carla Bley and Mary Lou Williams
BILLIE HOLIDAY-COUNT BASIE-SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON
USA 1950 • 15 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
TERESA BREWER AND THE FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
USA 1951• 16 mins • Directed by Will Cowan
DOWN BEAT REVIEW
USA 1955 • 30 mins •
with Count Basie, Nat King Cole and Dina Washington
FLAMINGO (ABC)
USA 1947 • ? mins~
Black cast film with Herb Jeffries and Lena Horne
FRENZY (ABC)
USA 1946 •
Black cast short with Herb Jeffries and Dorothy Dandridge
WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
USA 1938 • 9mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with vocalist Lee Wiley
ALL COLORED VAUDEVILLE SHOW (ABC)
USA 1935 • 9 mins • Directed by Roy Mack
with Adelaide Hall and the Nicholas Brothers
BUNDLE OF BLUES (ABC)
USA 1933 • 8 mins
with Duke Ellington and Ivy Anderson singing 'Stormy Weather'
Soundies (see shorts page
for more info on soundies and Snaders)
The INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM
Jump Children
She’s Crazy With the Heat
That Man of Mine
Just the Thing
Jump Children
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
Cow Cow Boogie
Zoot Suit
A Jig in the jungle
EDNA MAE HARRIS
Tain’t No Good
IVY ANDERSON
I’ve Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good
JUNE CHRISTY with Stan Kenton
It’s Been a Long, Long Time
Tampico
LENA HORNE
My New Gown
Unlucky Woman
MAXINE SULLIVAN
A Case of the Blues
Some of these Days
INA RAY HUTTON AND HER MELODEARS
Truckin’
Doing the Suzie Q
She’s the Topic of the Tropics
JUNE RICHMOND
Hey Lawdy Mama
Mr Jackson
RITA RIO AND HER MISTRESSES OF RHYTMN
I Look at You
Flying feet
Sticks and Stones
Feed the Kitty
Snader Telescriptions (see shorts page for more info on soundies and Snaders)
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
Why Don’t You Do right
HELEN HUMES
I Cried For You
I Could Be With You
below Helen sings " I Cried For You" with the Count Basie sextet with the great Wardell Gray with Buddy De Franco and Clark Terry
JUNE CHRISTY
All God's Children Got Rhythm
He's Funny That Way
Imagination
S’posin’
Taking a Chance on Love
SARAH VAUGHAN
Perdido
The Nearness of You
These Things I Offer You
You’re Mine, You
You’re Not the Kind
Feature Films
LADY SINGS THE BLUES
USA 1972 • 144 mins • Directed by Sidney Furie
Bio of Billie Holiday with the usual songs
NEW ORLEANS
USA 1947 • 90 mins • Directed by Arthur Lubin
With Armstrong, Barney Bigard, Kid Ory, Woody Herman and
Billie Holiday on screen (see features page for movie clip)
GOING PLACES
USA 1938 • 84 mins • Directed by Ray Enright
with Armstrong and Maxine Sullivan
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
USA 2005 • 93 mins • Directed b y George Clooney Dianne Reeves appears and sings all the
material on the sound track backed by a wonderful quartet including Jeff
Hamilton (drums) and Matt Catingub (sax)
PARADISE IN HARLEM (ABC)
USA 1939 • 85 mins • Directed by Joseph Seiden
Features the Luck Millinder Orchestra with Mamie
Smith
REMEMBER MY NAME
USA • 1978 • 94 mins • Directed by Alan Rudolph
Soundtrack written and performed by Alberta Hunter with Vic Dickenson (tbn) Bud Johnson (ten) Doc Cheatham (tpt) Connie Kay (drums)
RICHARD III
UK 1995 • 105 mins • Directed by Richard Loncraine
Shakespeare set in a 30's fascist England. Singer
Stacy Kent appears with a big band in the opening scene
RIDE' EM COWBOY
USA 1941 • 82mins • Directed by Arthur Lubin
Abbott and Costello comedy with a wonderful scene on board a bus with
Ella Fitzgerald in her first screen appearance, singing "Ticket
a Tasket" ( see Features page for clip of Ella singing)
RHYTHM IN A RIFF
USA • 1946 • 45 mins • Directed by Leonard Anderson
with Billy Eckstine and his Band with Gene Ammons and Frank Wess below Ann Baker sings and Billy solos on valve trombone
ST. LOUIS BLUES
USA • 1929 • 16 mins • Directed by Dudley Murphy
with Bessie Smith in her only screen appearance
ST. LOUIS BLUES
USA 1958 • 93 mins • Directed by Allen Reisner
The life of W.C. Handy ? with, Ella Fitzgerald
and Nat King Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Teddy Wilson, Barney Bigard
ST. LOUIS BLUES
USA 1939 • 90 mins • Directed by Raoul Walsh
Features Maxine Sullivan singing her most
popular song Loch Lomond
STORMY WEATHER
USA 1943 • 78 mins • Directed by Andrew Stone
All black musical with Fats Waller, Cab Calloway and
Lena Horne
THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN’
USA 1947• ? mins • Directed by Josh Binney
with Phil Moore, Bob Howerd, Hadda Brooks and Una Mae Carlisle
