23.05.2023 That's My Jazz: At the Movies

Prof. Catherine Tackley
More about this show
  • FILM
  • JAZZ
  • SOUNDTRACK
  • SWING
Episode

Grab your popcorn, we’re off to the pictures – this month’s edition of ‘That’s My Jazz’ explores jazz on film soundtracks.

There’s something in jazz for everyone! Exploring themes which connect the past and present of jazz, this show highlights contemporary artists, revisits landmark albums and reveals lesser-known tracks from more than a century of jazz on record. Whether you are new to jazz or a long-standing fan, this is the show that will help you find your jazz.

Tracklist

Jazz Thing – Gang Star (Mo’ Better Blues)
Now You Has Jazz – Bing Crosby/Louis Armstrong (High Society)
Alfie’s Theme Differently – Sonny Rollins (Alfie)
Bang Bang – will.i.am (The Great Gatsby)
Flirtibird – Duke Ellington (Anatomy of a Murder)
All the Cats Join In – Benny Goodman (All the Cats Join In)
Generique – Miles Davis (Ascenseur pour l’echafaud)
Sequence voiture – Miles Davis (Ascenseur pour l’echafaud)
Somewhere over the Rainbow – Bill Frisell (Finding Forrester)
The Street – Elmer Bernstein (Sweet Smell of Success)
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? – Louis Armstrong/Billie Holiday (New Orleans)
Monsters Inc. – Randy Newman (Monsters Inc.)