Jazz Scrapbook

Overview

The only doco to record the early years of Australian jazz. This lovingly compiled celluloid history of the Melbourne jazz scene is a fascinating study of an era and a social milieu, as well as a music documentary. Revisit Melbourne's early years with Benny Featherstone, the Early Conventions, jive with Frank Johnson's fabulous Dixielanders at Collingwood Town Hall, a riverboat trip up the Yarra, Dave Dallwitz, Graeme Bell in Czechoslovakia in 1947.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 27, 1983

Original language

English

Director

Nigel Buesst

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1163260