[Dixielandjazz] "Alma's Jazzy Marriage" documentary film on PBS

[David Richoux]

Hi All,

  I just found out about this 1/2 hour film that is playing on PBS 
stations this summer. Check your local listings (it may be called I.V. 
Magazine.)

(for those outside of the US you can order a tape or DVD at:
http://www.ivstudios.com/Web_02/films/alma.html )

> "Alma's Jazzy Marriage"

> Produced with Mal Sharpe & Sandra Sharpe
>
> With a memory and wit "as sharp as a 10 penny nail", Alma Foster 
> recalls her life with her husband, seminal jazz bassist George "Pops" 
> Foster during the Golden Age of Jazz.
>
> Louis Armstrong stood for them at their wedding. Fats Waller, Baby 
> Dodds, Bunk Johnson and Sydney Bechet were their closest friends. From 
> the 20's & and 30s in Harlem, through hilarious road trips and pranks 
> and, after the 1950s, life in San Francisco, Alma's Jazzy Marriage 
> provides a glimpse of the giants who created jazz from a very special 
> woman's point of view.
>
> Pops Foster's innovative bass playing and technique pushed aside the 
> tuba as the rhythm section of jazz forever, popularizing the slap bass 
> style which drove the hot sound of jazz.
>

Dave Richoux