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High Society Blues is a 1930 American pre-Code film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The movie was written by Howard J. Green from the story by Dana Burnett, and directed by David Butler .
Good News, starring Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards and Penny Singleton and featuring Abe Lyman & his Band; Heads Up, starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Helen Kane. Directed by Victor Schertzinger. High Society Blues, starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and Louise Fazenda; Hit the Deck, starring Jack Oakie, Polly Walker and June Clyde
When the Cotton Club closed in 1940, Calloway and his band went on a tour of the United States. [2] In 1941 Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas. Calloway wrongly accused Gillespie of throwing a spitball; in the ensuing altercation Gillespie stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife. [3]
Smith in 1936. The 1900 census indicates that her family reported that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. [2] [3] [4] The 1910 census gives her age as 16, [5] and a birth date of April 15, 1894, which appears on subsequent documents and was observed as her birthday by the Smith family.
Johnny Green's credits as musical executive, arranger, conductor and composer are considerable, including such films as Raintree County, Bathing Beauty, Easy to Wed, Something in the Wind, Easter Parade (for which he won his first Academy Award), Summer Stock, An American in Paris (which won him his second Academy Award), Royal Wedding, High ...
Erenberg, Lewis A. Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture (1998) Gitler, Ira. Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s (1987) Hennessey, Thomas J. From Jazz to Swing: African-Americans and Their Music, 1890–1935 (1994). Schuller, Gunther. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930 ...
Bob Haggart and Yank Lawson organized a band that combined dixieland and swing to try to carry on the legacy of Bob Crosby. From the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, the band was known as the World's Greatest Jazz Band, but when both became dissatisfied with the name they changed it to the Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band.
High Society" is a multistrain melody, originally a march copyrighted in April 1901 by Porter Steele, which has become a traditional jazz standard. The piccolo obbligato is not found in Steele's first version of the song; it appears to have originated in an orchestration by Robert Recker from later in 1901. [ 1 ]