JAZZIN', JAMMIN', JIVIN' Exhibit Archivist Presents on Jazz and Film
01-24-2010 to 01-24-2010
Location:
1330 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA CA
Jazz film archivist and historian Mark Cantor will help open the Jazz Heritage Center's first major exhibit of 2010, Jazzin', Jammin' & Jivin'. This unique exhibit features 50 vintage film posters illustrating an eight-decade period during which some of the greatest jazz musicians of African heritage appeared on film, including Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Lena Horne, and many others. Cantor is the curator of the exhibit.
On Sunday, January 24, at 3:00 P.M., Cantor will present a compilation of film clips from these films, clearly illustrating the music behind the posters. Taken from both short subjects and feature films, the musical excerpts will feature such artists as Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, and much, much more. The films clips are all extremely rare, and some cannot be seen from any other source worldwide.
Mr. Cantor's lecture is being presented in partnership with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF). The JCCSF is featuring Mark Cantor's Giant of Jazz on Film this Winter and Spring. For more information on this series, click here:
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About Mark Kantor: Film archivist and historian Mark Cantor has been active as a researcher and preservationist in the area of music on film for the past thirty years. During that time he has assembled one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of popular music on film existing in the United States.....more than four thousand titles in total. Along with the public exhibitions of jazz and blues films, Mr. Cantor has served as a consultant in the production of a large number of documentaries and feature film presentations. His footage has been widely used by television/documentary/CD ROM producers, and has been shared in such presentations as "The Soundies: Music For the Eyes"; "Celebrating Bird"; "The Many Faces of Billie Holiday"; "Satchmo"; "Glenn Miller - America's Musical Hero"; "Thelonius Monk: Monk's Music"; "Benny Goodman: Adventures In The Land Of Swing"; the Academy Award-nominated "A Great Day In Harlem," and its follow-up, "The Spitball Story"; "Ella Fitzgerald - Something To Live For." Mr. Cantor was a consultant and archivist for both the Showtime special "It's Black Entertainment" as well as Ken Burns' nineteen-hour television documentary "Jazz." In 2007 Mr. Cantor was the lead consultant and on-screen commentator for the PBS special "Soundies: A Musical History."
As a well-known authority on the subject of music on film, Mr. Cantor is contacted on a regular basis by filmmakers, television producers, newspersons and writers for information relating to jazz music and its documentation on film. He regularly publishes articles on jazz film in the Journal of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors.
"Mark Cantor has one of the very best collections of jazz films in the world. He was an invaluable asset to our Jazz series whose generous advice helped us unearth some extraordinary footage. Mark is an essential resource to anyone making a film about jazz."---- Ken Burns
