Jam Session (1942)
- Directed by
- Josef Berne
- Genre
- music
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 3 min
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 29 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Duke Ellington and his orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues' in a short black-and-white film from 1942. It shows the band playing in a relaxed jam session style.
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What happens
Jam Session is a 1942 American short film, directed by Josef Berne, which shows Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing "C Jam Blues". In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the 3-minute, black-and-white film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The short 16 mm film was a Soundie, distributed by the Soundie Distributing Corporation for playback in the Panoram film jukebox. Jam Session is included on the DVD Duke Ellington: Early Tracks from the Master of Swing (2006). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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