Count Basie

The Cinderella story in form of a farce and with a guy in the leading role: Fowler is a clumsy simpleton, who has to care for his step mother and her two stuck-up sons Maximilian and Rupert (imdb)

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 brownstone near the 125th street station. The documentary compiles interviews of many of the musicians in the photograph to talk about the day of the photograph, and it shows film footage taken that day by Milt Hinton and his wife. (imdb)

Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus additional performances filmed in 1977 and 1979, with introductions by Granz and jazz critic Nat Hentoff and also includes the 1944 short Jammin' the Blues. (imdb)

Count Basie does a little rhyming rapping before going into this Benny Goodman instrumental composition. While he's playing, plenty of couples are jitterbugging constantly until, one by one, they get tired and start to fall down on the floor.

Count Basie Orchestra's "Take Me Back, Baby".

Count Basie and His Orchestra playing us a boogie.

Short film featuring performances by Frank “Sugar Chile” Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet.

Jazz musicians reunite to reminisce about the Kansas City jazz scene and to play music.