[Dixielandjazz] MacDonald and Associates Jazz Film Collection

[Steve Barbone]

Speaking of Jazz performances on film, MacDonald & Associates has a large
inventory. Among their jazz listings is a Berrigan clip. May be the one John
Farrell talks about, or it may be a different performance. They maintain a
broad library of 20th century film performances of all sorts of music, as
well as other events.

The "All About Jazz" web site also puts the date of the Berrigan clip that
John mentions as 1934.

Here is their jazz listing. Note the first paragraph as well as the last:

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


MacDonald & Associates
http://www.macfilms.com/index.htm

Filmed Jazz Performances include
 
Jazz Short Films
Jazz and the Big Bands
Jazz Cartoons
Filmed Jazz Performances

Our holdings consist of PUBLIC DOMAIN titles and films that remain protected
through copyrights. While Public Domain footage can be licensed immediately
by MacDonald & Associates, protected films must be cleared with the
copyright holder before being used in a new production. Just because a
motion picture is in our inventory, it does not mean that MacDonald &
Associates maintains the legal right to license its use. Please contact us
for the copyright status on individual titles.

With the acquisition of more than 200 hours of filmed jazz performances,
MacDonald & Associates has realized a major expansion in its popular music
holdings. These sound films range from the 1920s to the 1970s. The addition
makes the archive a leading commercial repository of historic musical film.

The MacDonald jazz holdings extend from Bessie Smith in St. Louis Blues
(1929), Chick Webb in After Sebben (1930), and James P. Johnson's
African-American tone poem, Yamekraw (1930), to classics of the Swing Era
and Modern Jazz. The films include performances by musical legends such as
Sidney Bechet, Django Reinhardt, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Cab
Calloway, Don Redman, Artie Shaw, Coleman Hawkins, Woody Herman, Charlie
Barnet, Stan Kenton, Stephane Grappelli, Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby, Dizzy
Gillispie, Harry James, Count Basie, and Hazel Scott.

Also present are films of Jack Teagarden, Erskine Hawkins, Nat King Cole
Trio, Louis Prima, Louis Jordan, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, Cootie
Williams, Lester Young, Kid Ory, Buddy DeFranco, Chico Hamilton, Chick
Corea, Herbie Hancock, Sarah Vaughan, Teddy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Lucky
Millinder, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Mingus, The Mills Brothers, Fats Waller,
Lena Horne, The Martha Davis Trio, Billy Eckstine, Bunny Berrigan, and Bob
Howard. 

Among the titles is a large number of jazz TV series.

These include such programs as Jazz Scene USA (with Shelly Manne, Cal
Tjader, The Jazz Crusaders, Stan Kenton, Shorty Rogers, Cannonball Adderly,
etc.); The Big Bands (with Basie, Ellington, Hampton, Tommy and Jimmy
Dorsey, Harry James, Les Elgart, etc.); Jazz 625 (with Buck Clayton, Red
Allen, Art Farmer Quartet, etc.); Goodyear Jazz Concert (with Ellington,
Armstrong, Bobby Hackett, Eddie Condon, Wild Bill Davison, Doc Severinsen);
Studio 61 (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ben Webster, Ahmad Jamal, etc.); The
Subject Is Jazz (Ellington, Yank Lawson, Billy Taylor, Ben Webster, Vic
Dickenson, Jimmy Rushing, etc.); and Jazz Casual (Joe Sullivan, Muggsy
Spanier, Earl Hines, etc.).

Further, MacDonald & Associates has added many television specials. Included
here are The World of Benny Goodman, Basie and Bassey (Count Basie and
Shirley Bassey), Timex All-Star Jazz Show (Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Bud
Freeman, etc.), Newport Jazz Festival 1962 (Ellington, Basie, Oscar
Peterson, etc.) Music of the '60s (Kenton), Chicago and All That Jazz
(Teagarden, Condon, Freeman, etc.), The Sound of Jazz (Basie, Billie
Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Gerry Mulligan, etc.), and Duke Ellington--We Love
You Madly--plus TV appearances by such as Woody Herman, Bill Evans, Errol
Garner, Bob Crosby, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Sammy Davis Jr., and Kenny
Baker.

The collection also contains several dozen animated cartoons featuring
soundtracks by celebrated jazz musicians.