[Dixielandjazz] Actors portraying musicians

[Fred Spencer]

Dear Ed,
You may be interested in a book,,"Silver Threads" by Arthur Bradley (Aplomb 
Publishing, El Paso,TX, 1994) , especially its chapter, "Bandleaders in the 
Movies." This has a table of  more than 100 "Pretend Musicians" from 1929 to 
1961of "Actors pretending to play band leaders or sidemen". Among many other 
tables in this extraordinary book , which is a collection of articles from 
"Joslin's Jazz Journal",  is the one of the 1,065 "Star Dust Recordings 
1927-1990". This includes the one of only the verse made by Frank Sinatra in 
1961. I wonder if anyone else did this. Cheers.
Fred

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Danielson" <mcvouty78 at hotmail.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:15 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Actors portraying musicians


> Lily Korte asked:
>
>>>Are there any films out there where the actors portraying musicians 
>>>actually do a good job at faking playing their instruments? If there are, 
>>>I sure haven't seen any of 'em.
>
> Robert DeNiro's tenor sax playing was reasonably convincing in "New York 
> New York."  He had been coached by Georgie Auld.  I thought it was a lousy 
> movie, though.
>
>
> Ed Danielson
>
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