Jazz on the Screen
A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker

Captions for the Images

clockwise from top left:

1. Chris Barber and his Band working for a TV show in the 1950s

2. Dizzie Gillespie (Sam Wright, left) and Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker) on stage performing in Los Angeles in "Bird," a Malpaso Production for Warner Bros. release.

3. Count Basie at Warner Bros. for the shooting of "Sex and the Single Girl."

4. Duke Ellington (left), Mort Sahl and Otto Preminger working on "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959).

5. Director Bertrand Tavernier, left, with Herbie Hancock and Dexter Gordon on "Autour de minuit" (1986).