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Jazz on the Screen
A jazz and blues filmography by David Meeker
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OMNIBUS series Ep: THE COTTON CLUB COMES TO THE RITZ / Nigel Finch [motion picture]
- Title
- OMNIBUS series Ep: THE COTTON CLUB COMES TO THE RITZ [motion picture]
- Director
- Nigel Finch
- Copyright Date
- 1985
- Place of Publication/Creation
- UK
- Form
- motion picture
- Source
- Information from: "Jazz on the Screen" by David Meeker. Used with permission.
- Notes
- Made-for-TV series.
- Feature film (over 60 minutes).
- Recorded in the Ritz Hotel, London.
- Songs
- "Creole love call" by Duke Ellington; "Take the ‘A' train" by Billy Strayhorn; "I've got a gal in Kalamazoo", "Chattanooga choo-choo", by Mack Gordon, Harry Warren; "Blues in the night" by Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen; "Stormy weather" by Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen"; "It ain't necessarily so" by Ira and George Gershwin.
- Personnel on Camera
- Interviews and performances from Cab Calloway, Adelaide Hall, The Nicholas Brothers, Doc Cheatham, Chuck Green, Max Roach, accompanied by the house band which included:- Alan Cohen, music director; Alan Downey, trumpet; Tony Coe, Olaf Vas, Alan Barnes, reeds; Stan Tracey, piano. Also numerous film clips.
Last Updated: 04-29-2019