BENNY CARTER SYMPHONY IN RIFFS
Harrison Engle
Director
Benny Carter
Composer
Benny Carter
Arranger
1989
USA
Information from: "Jazz on the Screen" by David Meeker. Used with permission.
motion picture
Made-for-TV programme or made-for-video/DVD release.
Feature film (over 60 minutes).
"Symphony in riffs", "Doozy", "Blues in my heart", "Souvenir", "Sky dance", "Sleep", "Melancholy lullaby", "Shoot the works", "Back Bay boogie", "Swingin' at Maida Vale", "Waltzing the blues", "When lights are low", "Lazy afternoon", "Savoy stampede", "Jump call", "Patience and fortitude", "People, people, people", "Easy money", "All that jazz" by Benny Carter; "Misty" by Erroll Garner; "Six or seven times" by Fats Waller; "Krazy kapers"; "Dee blues"; "Charleston is the best dance after all"; "I'd love it"; "Star dust" by Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish; "Honeysuckle rose" by Andy Razaf, Fats Waller; "I surrender, dear" by Gordon Clifford, Harry Barris; "Blue mountain" by Alfred Newman; "On Green Dolphin Street" by Ned Washington, Bronislau Kaper; "You'd be so nice to come home to" by Cole Porter; "All of me" by Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks; "The pawnbroker" by Quincy Jones; "Cow cow boogie" by Benny Carter, Don Raye, Gene De Paul; "My one and only love" by Robert Mellin, Guy Wood; "All day all night Marianne".
Interviews with Ella Fitzgerald, Andre Previn, David Sanborn, Leonard Feather, Quincy Jones.
Performance musicians:- Howard Alden, Danny Bank, Bill Bell, Eddie Bert, John Bunch, Howard C. Collins, John Eckert, Herb Geller, Al Harewood, Milt Hinton, Virgil Jones, Jimmy Knepper, Mel Lewis, Michael Moore, Cecil Payne, Benny Powell, Herman Riley, Lew Tabackin, Loren Schoenberg, Clark Terry, Frank Wess, Chuck Wilson, Richard Wyands, Lisle Atkinson, Ronald Bedford, Bill Berry, Oscar Brashear, Ron Carter, William Easley, Sherman Ferguson, John Goldsby, James Heats, Jack Jeffers, Dick Katz, John Lewis, Robert Millikan, Remo Palmieri, Bucky Pizzarelli, John R. Purcell, Ed Shaughnessy, Marvin Stamm, Joe Temperley, Frank Tusa, James Williams, Britt Woodman.
"Thanks to...Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, André Previn.."
jots
IHAS
190429
loc.natlib.jots.200013726