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    Jammin' the Blues is a 1944 American short film made by Gjon Mili and Norman Granz in which a number of prominent jazz musicians re-create the jam-session...
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    Gjon Mili (category Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire)
    Connecticut, at the age of 79. Greer, William R. (February 16, 1984). "Gjon Mili Life Magazine Photographer Dies". The New York Times. Jammin' the Blues at IMDb...
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  • several films, most notably the musical short Jammin' the Blues (1944). Jones performed regularly in later years at the West End jazz club at 116th and...
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    Barney Kessel (category The Wrecking Crew (music) members)
    a member of the Chico Marx big band. He appeared in the film Jammin' the Blues, which featured Lester Young. Soon after, he played in the bands of Charlie...
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    The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under numerous names...
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    Sid Catlett (category The Chocolate Dandies members)
    screen in the 1944 film Jammin' the Blues, but, as was common practice then, the soundtrack was not recorded during filming. Instead, the drum track...
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    short film Jammin' the Blues. In September 1944, Young and Jo Jones were in Los Angeles with the Basie Band when they were inducted into the U.S. Army...
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  • 17th Academy Awards (category March 1945 events in the United States)
    The 17th Academy Awards were held on March 15, 1945 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, honoring the films of 1944. This was the first time the complete awards...
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  • Every Breath You Take (category The Police songs)
    on Gjon Mili's 1944 short film Jammin' the Blues. Shot in black-and-white with a navy blue tint, the video depicts the band, accompanied by a pianist...
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  • Robert Burks (category Deaths from fire in the United States)
    Director of Photography credit was Jammin' the Blues (1944), a short film featuring leading jazz musicians of the day. Burks is best known for his cinematography...
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    the hit number "Bli Blip". She also appeared as the head of a dance troupe in the movie Carolina Blues (1944), and sang in the short film Jammin' the...
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  • 1940s; he also appeared in the film Jammin' the Blues in 1944. He quit playing full-time and worked in a post office later in the 1940s, then returned in...
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  • Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014) Jamila, the Algerian (1958) Jamila dan Sang Presiden (2009) The Jammed (2007) Jammin' the Blues (1944) Jamna Par (1946) Jamna Pyari...
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    considerable sums of money. In 1944, Granz and Gjon Mili produced the jazz film Jammin' the Blues, which starred Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Barney Kessel...
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  • Gap Band V- Jammin' is the seventh album (contrary to the title) by the Gap Band, released in 1983 on Total Experience Records. The album was reissued...
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    Harry Edison (category Deaths from prostate cancer in the United States)
    composer/arranger for the band. He also appeared in the 1944 film Jammin' the Blues. Edison spent thirteen years with Basie until the band was temporarily...
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    with Katherine Dunham), American short 1944: Jammin' the Blues (dancer), American short about jazz, part of the Melody Master series 1954: Vera Cruz (a cutthroat...
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    Dumbo (sequence director), The Story of Menstruation (uncredited) John Landis: National Lampoon's Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Michael Jackson's...
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    Giorgio Gomelsky (category Swiss emigrants to the United Kingdom)
    Gomelsky that his vocation would be to film the burgeoning UK jazz scene. He had seen the 1948 film Jammin' the Blues and had formed forward-thinking stylistic...
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    Knox Manning (category Presidents of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)
    Conquer (1943) Beyond the Line of Duty (1942) The Rear Gunner (1943) Jammin' the Blues (1944, Melody Masters) California, Here We Are (1944, Sports Parade)...
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  • Gordon Hollingshead (category Producers who won the Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award)
    are on the DVD of Montana Jammin' the Blues and I Won't Play are on the DVD of Passage to Marseille Story of a Dog and Frontier Days are on the DVD of...
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  • The 65th Cannes Film Festival was held from 16 to 27 May 2012. Italian film director Nanni Moretti was the president of the jury for the main competition...
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  • "Jammin' Me" is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, co-written by Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Mike Campbell. The heartland rock tune first appeared...
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  • along with "On the Sunny Side of the Street", was included in the film of that year, Jammin' the Blues, which features Young performing the songs in a May...
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  • Phillips Anna Maria Horsford as Veronica Washington Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Jammin Billy "Sly" Williams Despite being listed among NBC's Must See TV Thursday...
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    Nathan Cavaleri (category Australian blues guitarists)
    Australian blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and a former child actor. He issued two albums as a solo artist, Jammin' with the Cats (1993)...
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    This is the discography of American blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy. "Discography on Allmusic". Allmusic. "Discography on Discogs". Discogs. Hal...
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    Band V: Jammin', went gold, but was not quite as successful as the previous works, peaking at number 2 R&B and number 28 on the Billboard 200. The single...
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  • entertainer, and environmentalist. In the mid-1950s he was part of the duo The Country Lads and made regular appearances on CBS' The Jimmy Dean Show. In 1959, Flood's...
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  • Jammin' with the Cats is the debut studio album by Australian blues rock musician Nathan Cavaleri. The album was released in April 1993 and peaked at number...
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