What Is This Crazy Ellington (a.o.) Footage?

[JSngry]

The one (and only) commenter say Monterey 1970, and ok, but what were somebody going to do a sequel to Jazz On A Summer's Day?

Also, is this the earliest documented version of "Chinoiserie"?

More info here: http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.jots.200017821/default.html

60 minutes of footage? Where is all this stuff?

Norman Abbott?

[medjuck]

Excerpts from a film called" Monterey Jazz"  (1970).  They're not in order.  That's Johnny Otis's band backing the singers.  (Esther Phillips, Cleanhead Vinson and Jimmy Rushing).  And yes it's from a few months before the Lp recording of Chinoiserie. (Here it was still being called Eclipse pt 2.)

I got this info from the late Klaus Stratemann's  excellent book "Ellington: Day by Day by Day and Film by Film". 

Edited September 2, 2017 by medjuck

[JSngry]

What kind of film is/was this? Was it ever aired/shown?

[duaneiac]

Wasn't that 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival also the one where some scenes for Play Misty For Me were shot? 

[bluenoter]

On 9/2/2017 at 6:27 PM, duaneiac said:

Wasn't that 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival also the one where some scenes for Play Misty For Me were shot? 

Yes.

 

 

Edited September 4, 2017 by bluenoter

[JSngry]

On 9/2/2017 at 4:21 PM, medjuck said:

Excerpts from a film called" Monterey Jazz"  (1970).  They're not in order.  That's Johnny Otis's band backing the singers.  (Esther Phillips, Cleanhead Vinson and Jimmy Rushing).  And yes it's from a few months before the Lp recording of Chinoiserie. (Here it was still being called Eclipse pt 2.)

I got this info from the late Klaus Stratemann's  excellent book "Ellington: Day by Day by Day and Film by Film". 

I'm seeing this described as a 60 minute TV film. Where were the TVs that got to watch this?, and when?

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

I'm seeing this described as a 60 minute TV film. Where were the TVs that got to watch this?, and when?

I can't answer that but according to Stratemann the tv film was a shortened version of the 81 minute  original.  

[JSngry]

Archaeology appears to be in order!