[Dixielandjazz] Big Band Movies (was Side Street Strutters)

[Marek Boym]

The BG Story brings back memories!
I saw it within days of arriving in Israel (I did not even know how to
ask for tickets, but, lickily, the person in the box office spoke
Polish), and I thought "What a great country, with films like taht and
all those jazz records in stores!"
BTW, I have a friend from Morocco, who was introduced to jazz by that
film as a kid, and is still a jazz fan.
Did you folks notice that in Gene Krupa Story there some discrepancies
between the film and the music, like when Sal Mineo throws his sticks
in the air, byt you can hear the snare?  My (jazz hating) parents took
me to see it when I matriculated in 1960.
Cheers

On 08/08/2008, Don Robertson <jdrobertson at att.net> wrote:
> Hal,
>
> Sure it was Shelly.  What was I thinking?  I guess I'll have to watch it
> again
>
> Don Robertson
>
>
> Hal Vickery wrote:
> > As I recall, and it has been years since I've seen the Gene Krupa Story,
> there is a scene in which Krupa/Mineo is at a party and a character says
> something like, "You know Bix Beiderbecke" who is one of the guests.
> Chronologically Bix was long dead by this time, but hey!  It's Hollywood.
> >
> > The movie came out about the time my recently deceased brother was in
> college, St. Joseph's College in Rennselaer, IN, which is the college Krupa
> was kicked out of.  I remember him telling us that there were howls when the
> Hollywood version of the campus was shown.
> > The drumming was actually done by Krupa.  Dave Tough had been deceased
> over ten years by the time this movie was made.  Tough was played in the
> movie by Shelly Manne.  Maybe that's what you're thinking of.
> >
> > Hal Vickery
> >
> >
>
>
>
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