Improvisation
0
75 minutes
1/1/2004
Overview
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.
Cast List
Count Basie
as Self
Duke Ellington
as Self
Ella Fitzgerald
as Self
Dizzy Gillespie
as Self
Coleman Hawkins
as Self
Charlie Parker
as Self
Oscar Peterson
as Self
Buddy Rich
as Self
Lester Young
as Self
Ray Brown
as Self
Hank Jones
as Self
Flip Phillips
as Self
Harry Edison
as Self
Joe Pass
as Self (archive footage)
Bobby Durham
as Self
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
as Self