Movies: Buck Clayton

  • 1960
    Jazz on a Summer's Day

    Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

    Jazz on a Summer's Day

    7.21960HD

    Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisu...

    Jazz on a Summer's Day
  • 1956
    The Benny Goodman Story

    The Benny Goodman Story (1956)

    The Benny Goodman Story

    6.31956HD

    Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band....

    The Benny Goodman Story
  • 1994
    A Great Day in Harlem

    A Great Day in Harlem (1994)

    A Great Day in Harlem

    6.21994HD

    Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just about every jazz musician at the time showed up for the photo shoot which took place in front of a bro...

    A Great Day in Harlem
  • 1938
    Policy Man

    Policy Man (1938)

    Policy Man

    01938HD

    Crime comedy....

    Policy Man
  • 1955
    Allen in Movieland

    Allen in Movieland (1955)

    Allen in Movieland

    51955HD

    TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."...

    Allen in Movieland
  • 1955
    Dancing James Berry

    Dancing James Berry (1955)

    Dancing James Berry

    01955HD

    An impressionistic study of the celebrated tap dancer....

    Dancing James Berry
  • 1972
    Born to Swing

    Born to Swing (1972)

    Born to Swing

    01972HD

    “A tribute to the Swing Era evoked by skillful intercutting of rare material examining the varying fortunes of five ex-Basie sidemen. It looks at the years between 1930 and 1945 when Swing was in its heyday. Features a large number of artists includi...

    Born to Swing