Improvisation (2004)
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.
Director: Norman Granz
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Count Basie as Self |
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Duke Ellington as Self |
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Ella Fitzgerald as Self |
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Dizzy Gillespie as Self |
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Coleman Hawkins as Self |
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Charlie Parker as Self |
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Oscar Peterson as Self |
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Buddy Rich as Self |
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Lester Young as Self |
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Ray Brown as Self |
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Hank Jones as Self |
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Flip Phillips as Self |
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Harry Edison as Self |
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Joe Pass as Self (archive footage) |
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Bobby Durham as Self |
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Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen as Self |
| Directing | Norman Granz | Director |