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Jazz women on video [videorecording] / produced by Rosetta and Rebecca Peitz.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Rosetta Records, c1990.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | VHS. 1932-1952. "RRV 1320"--Label and container. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Everything I've got belongs to you -- I cried for you -- Some of these days -- Woman's no fool -- Lonesome road -- God bless the child -- Now baby or never -- La Cucaracha -- Indiana -- Jump children. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Edited by Mitchell Kress. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Featuring vocals and performances by Nina Mae McKinney, Helen Humes, Maxine Sullivan, Ida Cox, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Billie Holiday and their respective accompaniments ; and Rita Rio's Mistresses of Rhythm, Ada Leonard's All-American Girl Orchesta and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. |
| Summary, etc.: | A compilation of short films on the foremothers of jazz. Many of these short films were originally made as "soundies" (precursors of MTV) for jukeboxes with a screen to illustrate the 78 rpm record playing. |
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Women jazz musicians Jazz Jazz vocals |
