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Jazz at the Movies with Jamie Cullum

Jamie explores jazz in films - from Al Jolson to Jean-Luc Godard.

Jamie Cullum shares his love for jazz and the cinema. In the first of this two-part series, Jamie looks back to the earliest days of jazz on film, the struggles faced by black artists and performers and Duke Ellington's remarkable early work 'Symphony in Black'. He reveals how the cartoon character Betty Boop broke down many of the racial and sexual conventions of the time before she too became a victim of the Hollywood censors. And he celebrates two of his favourite films - 'Anatomy of a Murder', with its perfectly judged Ellington soundtrack, and the edgy brilliance of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (A Bout De Souffle). Featuring the French jazz genius Martial Solal and a rarely heard archive interview with Duke Ellington himself.

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Fri 11 Nov 2016 00:00
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:02

    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Makin' Whoopee

    • Fabulous Baker Boys Original Soundtrack.
  • 00:05

    Dave Grusin

    The Lullaby of Birdland

    • Fabulous Baker Boys Original Soundtrack.
  • 00:07

    Al Jolson

    The Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye

    • The Jazz Singer (Original Soundtrack).
    • HALCYON RECORDS.
  • 00:09

    Leo Reisman & Harold Arlen

    Stormy Weather

    • Stormy Weather - The Music of Harold Arlen.
    • Sony.
  • 00:12

    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    Symphony in Black

    • Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life.
    • Crate Digger Records.
  • 00:19

    Helen Kane

    Is There Anything Wrong in That?

    • Around the World.
    • Victor.
  • 00:20

    Helen Kane

    My Man is on the Make

    • HELEN KANE THE BOOP-OOP-A-DOOP GIRL.
    • Take Two Records.
  • 00:23

    Cab calloway orchestra

    Minie The Moocher

    • Cab Calloway.
    • Sony Records.
  • 00:27

    Helen Kane

    I Wanna Be Bad

  • 00:33

    The Duke Ellington Orchestra

    Way Early Subtone

    • Anatomy Of A Murder Soundtrack.
    • Columbia.
  • 00:35

    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    Anatomy of a Murder

  • 00:38

    The Duke Ellington Orchestra

    Flirtbird

    • Anatomy Of A Murder Soundtrack.
    • Columbia.
  • 00:40

    The Duke Ellington Orchestra

    Happy Anatomy

    • Anatomy Of A Murder Soundtrack.
    • Columbia.
  • 00:41

    The Duke Ellington Orchestra

    Low Key Lightly

    • Anatomy Of A Murder Soundtrack.
    • Columbia.
  • 00:45

    Martial Solal

    La Mort

    • A Bout De Souffle Soundtrack.
    • doxy.
  • 00:48

    Martial Solal

    Poursuite

    • A Bout De Souffle Soundtrack.
    • Doxy Music.
  • 00:50

    Martial Solal

    New York Herald Tribune

    • A Bout De Souffle Soundtrack.
    • Doxy.
  • 00:52

    Martial Solal

    A Bout De Souffle

    • A Bout De Souffle Soundtrack.
    • Doxy.
  • 00:55

    Johnny Griffin & Martial Solal

    In and Out

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