Jammin' the Blues is a 1944 American short film made by Gjon Mili and Norman Granz in which a number of prominent jazz musicians re-create the jam-session...
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Gjon Mili (category Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire)
Connecticut, at the age of 79. Greer, William R. (February 16, 1984). "Gjon Mili Life Magazine Photographer Dies". The New York Times. Jammin' the Blues at IMDb...
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several films, most notably the musical short Jammin' the Blues (1944). Jones performed regularly in later years at the West End jazz club at 116th and...
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Barney Kessel (category The Wrecking Crew (music) members)
one year he was a member of the Chico Marx big band. Noticed by Norman Granz, he appeared in the 1944 film Jammin' the Blues, which featured Lester Young...
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Lester Young (section With the Count Basie Orchestra)
short film Jammin' the Blues. In September 1944, Young and Jo Jones were in Los Angeles with the Basie Band when they were inducted into the U.S. Army...
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1940s; he also appeared in the film Jammin' the Blues in 1944. He quit playing full-time and worked in a post office later in the 1940s, then returned in...
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the hit number "Bli Blip". She also appeared as the head of a dance troupe in the movie Carolina Blues (1944), and sang in the short film Jammin' the...
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considerable sums of money. In 1944, Granz and Gjon Mili produced the jazz film Jammin' the Blues, which starred Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Barney Kessel...
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Harry Edison (category Deaths from prostate cancer in the United States)
composer/arranger for the band. He also appeared in the 1944 film Jammin' the Blues. Edison spent thirteen years with Basie until the band was temporarily...
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National Film Registry (redirect from List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry)
Dumbo (sequence director), The Story of Menstruation (uncredited) John Landis: National Lampoon's Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Michael Jackson's...
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Sid Catlett (category The Chocolate Dandies members)
screen in the 1944 film Jammin' the Blues, but, as was common practice then, the soundtrack was not recorded during filming. Instead, the drum track...
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Every Breath You Take (category The Police songs)
on Gjon Mili's 1944 short film Jammin' the Blues. Shot in black-and-white with a navy blue tint, the video depicts the band, accompanied by a pianist...
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The 65th Cannes Film Festival took place from 16 to 27 May 2012. Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti was the president of the jury for the main competition...
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Robert Burks (category Deaths from fire in the United States)
Director of Photography credit was Jammin' the Blues (1944), a short film featuring leading jazz musicians of the day. Burks is best known for his cinematography...
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The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under numerous names...
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with Katherine Dunham), American short 1944: Jammin' the Blues (dancer), American short about jazz, part of the Melody Master series 1954: Vera Cruz (a cutthroat...
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17th Academy Awards (category March 1945 events in the United States)
The 17th Academy Awards were held on March 15, 1945 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, honoring the films of 1944. This was the first time the complete awards...
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Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014) Jamila, the Algerian (1958) Jamila dan Sang Presiden (2009) The Jammed (2007) Jammin' the Blues (1944) Jamna Par (1946) Jamna Pyari...
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Oscars awarded: 2,170 Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each earned 11 Academy...
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Giorgio Gomelsky (category Swiss emigrants to the United Kingdom)
Gomelsky that his vocation would be to film the burgeoning UK jazz scene. He had seen the 1948 film Jammin' the Blues and had formed forward-thinking stylistic...
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Gap Band V- Jammin' is the seventh album (contrary to the title) by the Gap Band, released in 1983 on Total Experience Records. The album was reissued...
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"Jammin' Me" is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, co-written by Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Mike Campbell. The heartland rock tune first appeared...
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along with "On the Sunny Side of the Street", was included in the film of that year, Jammin' the Blues, which features Young performing the songs in a May...
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Tommy Banks (musician) (category Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence)
as a part of the "Jammin the Blues" shows. Within four years, Banks would gain the skill and experience to become the music director of the Orian Musical...
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Gordon Hollingshead (category Producers who won the Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award)
are on the DVD of Montana Jammin' the Blues and I Won't Play are on the DVD of Passage to Marseille Story of a Dog and Frontier Days are on the DVD of...
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Nathan Cavaleri (category Australian blues guitarists)
Australian blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and a former child actor. He issued two albums as a solo artist, Jammin' with the Cats (1993)...
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Jammin' with the Cats is the debut studio album by Australian blues rock musician Nathan Cavaleri. The album was released in April 1993 and peaked at number...
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Illinois Jacquet (category Jump blues saxophonists)
he appeared in the Academy Award-nominated short film Jammin' the Blues with Lester Young. He also appeared at the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert...
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Jr. as Jammin Despite being listed among NBC's Must See TV Thursday night lineup after A Different World at 8:00 and before Cheers at 9:00, the show was...
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Dick Flood (section The Jimmy Dean Show)
entertainer, and environmentalist. In the mid-1950s he was part of the duo The Country Lads and made regular appearances on CBS' The Jimmy Dean Show. In 1959, Flood's...
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