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Jam­min' the Blues (1944), Di­rect­ed by
Gjon Mili
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Here's a cool short show­ing the tal­ent of Lester Young on sax, and Jo Jones on the drums for the up­beat 2nd half of the set. Black peo­ple cre­at­ed jazz in and kept push­ing it to cre­ate it's var­i­ous forms: 'tra­di­tion­al', boo­gie-​woo­gie, swing, be­bop, ex­per­i­men­tal, etc. It was swing and be­bop, along with jit­ter­bug & charleston dance, and wear­ing the zoot-​suit that cap­tured the tastes of our peo­ple who were di­rect­ly in­flu­enced by the jazz cul­ture cre­at­ed by the Black Na­tion in the u.s. The dancers here do a mix of the lindy­hop and the jit­ter­bug con po­quito del charlesotn. -​ale
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Promi­nent jazz mu­si­cians of the 1940's get to­geth­er for a rare film­ing of a jam ses­sion. Marie Bryant has a vo­cal, and dancer Archie Sav­age does the jit­ter­bug. It is no­table that for sev­er­al cast mem­bers, this is their on­ly known ap­pear­ance in a the­atri­cal film.

Cast (in cred­its or­der)ver­i­fied as com­plete
Lester Young .... Him­self -​ on tenor sax
George 'Red' Cal­len­der .... Him­self -​ on bass (as Red Cal­len­der)
Har­ry Edi­son .... Him­self -​ on trum­pet
Mar­lowe Mor­ris .... Him­self -​ on pi­ano
Sid­ney Catlett .... Him­self -​ on drums
Bar­ney Kessel .... Him­self -​ on gui­tar
Jo Jones .... Him­self -​ on drums (as Joe Jones)
John Sim­mons .... Him­self -​ on bass
Illi­nois Jacquet .... Him­self
Marie Bryant .... Her­self -​ singer
Archie Sav­age .... Him­self
Gar­land Finney .... Him­self (un­cred­it­ed)
Knox Man­ning .... Nar­ra­tor (un­cred­it­ed)

http://www.imdb.com/ti­tle/tt0036968/full­cred­its