Jazz Ball (1956)

8.0/10 56 min Music Documentary

Overview

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Cast

Cab Calloway

Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Betty Hutton

Self (archive footage)

Rudy Vallee

Self (archive footage)

Bob Crosby

Self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Dorsey

Self (archive footage)

Ina Ray Hutton

Self (archive footage)

Red Nichols

Self (archive footage)

Russ Morgan

Self (archive footage)

Gene Krupa

Self (archive footage)

Peggy Lee

Self (archive footage)

Louis Prima

Self (archive footage)

Artie Shaw

Self (archive footage)

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