Jazz Ball (Movie)

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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1. Birth of the Blues (1941) (Movie) (3)
   

   Duke Ellington...Himself, Duke Ellington (archive footage)

   

   Louis Armstrong...Louis Armstrong (archive footage)

   

   Jimmy Dorsey...Himself, Jimmy Dorsey (archive footage)
2. It's Black Entertainment (2002) (Movie) (3)
   

   Louis Armstrong...Self (archive footage)

   

   Sammy Davis Jr....Self (archive footage)

   

   Duke Ellington...Self (archive footage)
3. A Man Called Adam (1966) (Movie) (2)
   

   Sammy Davis Jr....Adam Johnson

   

   Louis Armstrong...Willie Ferguson
4. Artie Shaw's Class in Swing (1939) (Movie) (2)
   

   Artie Shaw...

   Buddy Rich...himself
5. Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet (1982) (Movie) (2)
   

   Louis Armstrong...Self

   

   Artie Shaw...Self
6. Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975) (Movie) (2)
   

   Cab Calloway...Self (archive footage)

   

   Duke Ellington...Self (archive footage)
7. Cabin in the Sky (1943) (Movie) (2)
   

   Louis Armstrong...The Trumpeter

   

   Duke Ellington...Duke Ellington
8. Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do (2015) (Movie) (2)
   

   Sammy Davis Jr....Self (archive footage)

   

   Rudy Vallee...Self (archive footage)
9. Dancing Co-Ed (1939) (Movie) (2)
   

   Artie Shaw...Artie Shaw

   Buddy Rich...Drummer (uncredited)
10. Happy Go Lucky (1943) (Movie) (2)
    

    Betty Hutton...Bubbles Hennessy

    

    Rudy Vallee...Alfred Monroe
11. Hollywood Hotel (1937) (Movie) (2)
    

    Johnnie Davis...Georgia

    

    Gene Krupa...Benny Goodman Drummer (uncredited)
12. Improvisation (2004) (Movie) (2)
    

    Duke Ellington...himself

    Buddy Rich...himself
13. International House (1933) (Movie) (2)
    

    Rudy Vallee...Himself

    

    Cab Calloway...Cab Calloway
14. Jazz Evolution (2008) (Movie) (2)
    

    Duke Ellington...Piano

    

    Louis Armstrong...Trumpet
15. Make Believe Ballroom (1949) (Movie) (2)
    

    Jimmy Dorsey...Self

    

    Gene Krupa...Self
16. On the Road with Duke Ellington (1974) (Movie) (2)
    

    Duke Ellington...Himself

    

    Louis Armstrong...Himself
17. Piano Blues (2003) (Movie) (2)
    

    Cab Calloway...Self (archive footage)

    

    Duke Ellington...Self (archive footage)
18. Reveille with Beverly (1943) (Movie) (2)
    

    Bob Crosby...Bob Crosby

    

    Duke Ellington...Orchestra Leader
19. Symphony of Swing (1939) (Movie) (2)
    

    Artie Shaw...Himself

    Buddy Rich...Himself - Drummer (uncredited)
20. TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004) (Movie) (2)
    

    Cab Calloway...

    

    Sammy Davis Jr....(archive footage)
21. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) (Movie) (2)
    

    Louis Armstrong...(archive footage)

    

    Betty Hutton...(archive footage)
22. The Five Pennies (1959) (Movie) (2)
    

    Louis Armstrong...Louis Armstrong

    

    Bob Crosby...Will Paradise
23. The Fleet's In (1942) (Movie) (2)
    

    Betty Hutton...Bessie Dale

    

    Jimmy Dorsey...Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Leader (as Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra)
24. The Glenn Miller Story (1954) (Movie) (2)
    

    Louis Armstrong...Louis Armstrong

    

    Gene Krupa...Gene Krupa
25. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) (Movie) (2)
    

    Betty Hutton...Holly

    

    Bob Crosby...Spectator
26. The Jazz Ambassadors (2018) (Movie) (2)
    

    Louis Armstrong...Himself (archive footage)

    

    Duke Ellington...Himself (archive footage)
27. The Shining Future (1944) (Movie) (2)
    

    Johnnie Davis...Self

    

    Gene Krupa...Self
28. The Story Of The Blues (2004) (Movie) (2)
    

    Duke Ellington...Himself

    

    Louis Armstrong...Himself
29. The Strolling '20s (1966) (Movie) (2)
    

    Sammy Davis Jr....

    

    Duke Ellington...