The history of the motion picture industry goes way back to the turn of the 20th century, at about the same time “jass” was forming at the mouth of The Big Muddy. Due to the fact that these two art forms grew up side by side there are many examples of jazz music in movies, television and theater. So the Jazz Amnesty Sound System decided to mix up sounds originally heard on the big screen, little screen and/or stage, blended together without consideration of time or space, for your listening enjoyment. Lights... Camera... Action!
Tracklist
Playing tracks by Dwight Andrews, The Harlem Footwarmers, Cannonball Adderly, Nat adderly, Elmer Bernstein and more.
Comments
Wow! Thank you so much!
hi Alex, here's the info on the first cut.
Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Setting: The bandroom and recording studio of a record company in
Chicago. The "Race" division. Early March 1927
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play - one of the ten-play
Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American
playwright - that chronicles the twentieth century African
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Ma_Rainey%27s_Black_Bottom.jpgAmerican
experience. The play is set in Chicago in the 1920s (the only play in
the group not set in Pittsburgh), and deals with issues of race, art,
religion and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by
white producers.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Ma_Rainey%27s_Black_Bottom.jpg/150px-Ma_Rainey%27s_Black_Bottom.jpg
Thank you for a great mix!
But where did you get the first excerpt from? Is there a movie based on the play?
Thank you!
aaaaah simply wonderful