Best of Rock Hall Jazz on Film Exhibit [PHOTOS] was originally published on wzakcleveland.com
1. Rock Hall Jazz on Film Exhibit
2. St. Louis Blues, 1929 RKO/Sack Amusements FREE Screening (one of several shorts), Feb. 26th, 7:30pm, Rock Hall – This sixteen-minute short film shot in Astoria, Queens, New York City, is blues singer Bessie Smith’s only screen role. In it, she plays a long-suffering wife of an uncaring gambler. Co-produced by W.C. Handy, author of the title song, the film also features Isabelle Washington (sister of actress Fredi Washington) who plays the “other woman.” Pianist James P. Johnson and the Hall Johnson Choir accompanied Smith and added to the overwhelming pathos of her singing, making this dramatized interpretation of the blues a true film classic.
3. Rock-n-Roll Revue
4. Listen Up The Lives of Quincy Jones
5. Caldonia
6. Cabin In The Sky
