Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977, Joe Pass 1979, Ella Fitzgerald 1979, and Oscar Peterson at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977.
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Count Basie
Self
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Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes
Cavalcade of Bands
Duke Ellington
Self
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Belle of the Nineties
Check and Double Check
Norman Granz
Norman Granz
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The Long Night of Lady Day
Norman Granz' Jazz In Montreux Presents Eddie Lockjaw Davis '77
Ella Fitzgerald
Self
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Pete Kelly's Blues
Ella Fitzgerald And Joe Pass - Duets In Hanover
Dizzy Gillespie
Self
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The Hole
Voyage to Next
Eddie Davis
Eddie Davis
Coleman Hawkins
Self
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The Sound of Jazz
Jazz Icons - Coleman Hawkins Live in '62 & '64
Charlie Parker
Self
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Bird 100
Oscar Peterson
Self
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Oscar Peterson A Night In Vienna
Oscar
Buddy Rich
Self
Also in
Buddy Rich: The Lost Tapes
Ship Ahoy
Lester Young
Self
Ray Brown
Self
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Ray Brown Trio & Friends - Jazzwoche Burghausen
Earth, Wind & Fire: Live at Montreux
Norman Granz Director
United States release January 1, 2004 · Produced in United States
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 1, 2004
Theatrical
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