Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other title: | St. Louis blues.
Symphony in black : A rhapsody of Negro life.
Caldonia.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Murphy, Dudley.
Waller, Fred.
Crouch, William Forest, 1904-1968
Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937.
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975.
Video Images (Firm)
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| Notes: | Title from cassette.
Originally issued as motion pictures in 1929, 1935, and 1945.
Photography, Walter Strenge (1), William Steiner, Jr. (2), Don Malkames (3) ; editing, Russell Shields (1), Leonard Weiss (3)
Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, Billie Holiday.
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| Summary: | Bessie Smith sings as the scorned woman in St. Louis blues. In Symphony in black, Duke Ellington writes and performs in his own music about Negro moods. And in Caldonia, Louis Jordan plays the saxophone and sings about his woman as he is making a movie in Harlem.
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