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Title

Rhythm in a riff ; Jivin' in bebop / Associated Producers of Negro Motion Pictures ; produced by William D. Alexander ; directed by Leonard Anderson.

Publication

[Place of publication not identified] : Vintage Jazz Classics, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
• Eckstine, Billy.
• Alexander, William D.
• Anderson, Leonard.
• Associated Producers of Negro Motion Pictures.
• Vintage Jazz Classics, Ltd.

Description

1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 in.

Series Statement

Vintage jazz classics video

Alternative Title

• Rhythm in a riff ; Jivin' in bebop
• Things to come
• Big bands of Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine
• Jivin' in bebop.

Subject

• 1941-1950
• Jazz > 1941-1950
• Big band music
• Jazz

Genre/Form

• jazz.
• Big band music.
• Jazz.

Note

• VHS; mono.
• Title on container: Things to come: the big bands of Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine.
• Originally released as motion pictures in 1946 and 1947, respectively.

Credits (note)

• Part one: Director of photography, Don Malkamas ; screenplay, Les Hafner ; film editor, Gladys Brothers ; sound, Nelson Minnerlay ; make-up, Fred Ryla. Part two: Photography, Don Malkamas ; film editor, Gladys Brothers ; screenplay, Powell Lindsay ; sound, Nelson Minnerly ; make-up, Fred Ryle and Dave Gaston.

Event (note)

• Billy Eckstine's performance was filmed in New York, June or July 1946. Dizzy Gillespie's performance was filmed in New York, mid-1947.

Contents

Part 1. Second balcony jump (rehearsal) / Billy Eckstine & Gerald Valentine (0:32) -- Rhythm in a riff / Billy Eckstine & Gerald Valentine (2:39) -- You call it madness / Russ Colombo & Con Conrad (2:33) -- Second balcony jump (full) / Billy Eckstine & Gerald Valentine (2:53) -- Lonesome lover blues / Billy Eckstine (2:25) -- Taps Miller / Buck Clayton (2:05) -- I cried for you / Arthur Freed, Gus Arnheim & Abe Lyman (2:47) -- I want to talk about you / Billy Eckstine (2:47) -- Our delight / Tadd Dameron (2:36) -- Prisoner of love / Leo Robin, Russ Colombo & Clarence Gaskill (2:46). Part 2. Salt peanuts / Dizzy Gillespie & Kenny Clarke (3:23) -- Be-baba-leba / Helen Humes (2:37) -- Oop bop Sh'bam / Walter Fuller, Jay Roberts & Dizzy Gillespie (2:26) -- I waited for you / Walter Fuller & Dizzy Gillespie (2:55) -- Crazy 'bout a man / Helen Humes (2:31) -- One bass hit / Walter Fuller & Dizzy Gillespie (2:46) -- He beeped when he shoulda bopped / Walter Fuller & Dizzy Gillespie (2:47) -- Things to come / Walter Fuller & Dizzy Gillespie (2:40).

OCLC

• ocm49371697
• 49371697
• SCSB-1202010

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library