Movies: Buck Clayton
- 1960
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)
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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...
- 1956
The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
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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....
- 1994
A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
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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...
- 1938
Policy Man (1938)
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Crime comedy....
- 1955
Allen in Movieland (1955)
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TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."...
- 1955
Dancing James Berry (1955)
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An impressionistic study of the celebrated tap dancer....
- 1972
Born to Swing (1972)
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“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...