Goodyear Jazz Concert

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Goodyear Jazz Concert was the title of a series of jazz films commissioned by the Goodyear tire company in the early 1960s and produced by Mike Bryan.

In the early 1960s, the American tire manufacturer Goodyear Tire Company commissioned several jazz short films as a promotion. The studio recordings of the Louis Armstrong All Stars (with Jewel Brown , New York City, April 2, 1962), the Eddie Condon All Stars (New York City, 1962), the Duke Ellington Orchestra ( Kinda Dukish ) and the Bobby Hackett Sextet ( New York City, 1962) and a. with Urbie Green and Bob Wilber . The recordings were originally shot on 35 mm film; the music recorded in stereo. The recordings of the groups around Armstrong, Hackett and Condon were released on DVD in 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Cogswell: Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo 2003, p. 12
  2. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X , p. 90.
  3. Jazz Journal International - 2009, Volume 62, Issue 1 - page 12
  4. Marc Myers: Eddie Condon in Color (2016) ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzwax.com