"Actor: Jack Teagarden"

• Jazz On A Summer's Day | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival was a true musical watershed, as Jazz on a Summers Day reveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita ODay intermingle with the hard bop of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and the smouldering fusion overtones of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Theres a crisp contribution from Chuck Berry, a typically feel-good set from Louis Armstrong--including a hilarious duo with Jack Teagarden--and, as evening shades into night, a heartfelt performance from Mahalia Jackson, closing with a melting rendition of "The Lords Prayer". Bert Stern has assembled all these and more into a satisfying sequence, complete with footage of an enthusiastic and informal audience. Shots of the yachting line-up from the Americas Cup round out a blissful and what now seems blissfully naïve occasion. On the DVD: Colour picture quality has worn well, whereas sound has deteriorated notably at times: Thelonius Monks quarter-tones could easily be a semitone flat! Even so, its worth putting up with this to enjoy a tour through music-making whose relaxed spontaneity would be impossible to emulate today. --Richard Whitehouse

• This Joint Is Jumpin' | DVD | (21/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  26 Stompin' classics from the big band era. Artists include Dizzy Gillespie Jack Teagarden Billy Eckstein Harry 'the hipster' Gibbon The Art Tatum all stars Bobby Hackett Walter Liberace & the Les Paul trio.

• Benny Goodman - the Swing Era | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Tracklisting:BENNY GOODMAN:01. I've Got A Heartful of Music02. Avalon / House HopARTIE SHAW:03. Nightmare04. Table d'Hotel05. I Have Eyes06. Shoot the Likker to Me07. Concerto for ClarinetJIMMY DORSEY:08. Theme: Contrasts09. Beebe10. Rubber Dolly]11. Only A Rose12. John Silver13. Bar babble14. Man that's Groovy15. La RositaHOAGY CARMICHAEL:16. Two Sleepy People17. That's Right I'm Wrong18. Washboard Blues / Lazy Bones19. Small Fry / Rockin' Chair20. Star DustJACK TEAGARDEN:21. Lover22. Basin St. Blues23. Wolverine Blues24. Rockin' Chair25. That's A Plenty26. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen27. Jack Armstrong Blues28. Stars Fell On Alabama29. Dark Eyes30. Georgia On My Mind