Kid Ory “Muskrat Ramble”
The Will Cowan musical shorts produced by Universal are an amazing collection of films that spotlight some of the finest musical talent from the 1940s
The Will Cowan musical shorts produced by Universal are an amazing collection of films that spotlight some of the finest musical talent from the 1940s
During a three-year period, 1967-197O, the Seattle Folklore Society, in association with the University of Washington at Seattle, produced a series of performance videos generically
I have recently been watching some of the more obscure Universal-International band shorts from the late 1940s and early 1950s. We are all pretty familiar
One of our other featured clips spotlights bluesman John Lee Hooker. Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson was one of Hooker’s contemporaries — they were born within four
T.V. Gospel Time was a rather amazing television series, produced and syndicated during the 1962-66 television seasons. Since all of the performers were African-American, one can
Graeme Bell and his Australian Jazz Band
The 1950s and ‘60s were indeed Golden Decades for jazz on television, with all styles of the music, from ragtime and early New Orleans to
Most of us, I presume, would prefer straight ahead musical presentations on screen: show me the band, give me some close ups of the soloists