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Jazz on the Screen
A jazz and blues filmography by David Meeker
THE ROYAL ELLINGTON CONCERT / Charles Thompson [motion picture]
- Title
- THE ROYAL ELLINGTON CONCERT [motion picture]
- Director
- Charles Thompson
- Place of Publication/Creation
- UK
- Copyright Date
- 1989
- Form
- motion picture
- Source note
- Information from: "Jazz on the Screen" by David Meeker. Used with permission.
- Songs note
- "Black and tan fantasy", "Stompy Jones", "The Queen's suite", The mooche", "Diminuendo and crescendo in blue" by Duke Ellington; "Take the ‘A' train" by Billy Strayhorn; "Mood indigo" by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Barney Bigard.
- Personnel on camera note
- The Bob Wilber Big Band:- Colin Smith, Ronnie Hughes, Alan Downey, Paul Eshelby, trumpet; Rick Edwards, Chris Pyne, Mark Nightingale, trombone; Bob Wilber, Tony Coe, Alan Cohen, Ronnie Ross, Antti Sarpila, Al Newman, reeds; Mark Shane, piano; Jim Douglas, guitar; Len Skeat, acoustic double bass; Bobby Orr, drums; Adelaide Hall, vocal; Joanne Horton, vocal, narrator.
- Note(s)
- Made-for-TV programme or made-for-video/DVD release.
- Feature film (over 60 minutes).
- Recorded on 23rd January 1989 in the Royal Festival Hall, London.