Jazz und Film
Ein historisch-thematischer Überblick
Jazz and film have many parallels in their development and history. Their real connections, however, extend beyond that they are examined here in the following categories: Jazz music and musicians as milieu presentation and/or providing brief background to the plot; the Jazz milieu as a regular feature in film; films about the "Negro Milieu", as a pretense for Jazz; Jazz as a central film theme; film musicals as a medium for Jazz; Jazz music and/or musicians as subject material for a quasi- biography; Jazz music and/or musicians as topic material for a standard (film) biography; Jazz-pseudo-interpretation, for instance, explanation; Jazz short films (shorts, features); Soundies and Telescriptions; TV casual series; Jazz documentaries (Newsreels, Name-Band series, original documentary takes); filmed sessions of live Jazz events; and Jazz musicians as film composers. A list of the most important film titles is appended.