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5 unusual facts about Jammin' the Blues


Jammin' the Blues

The movie was artfully directed by famed still photographer Gjon Mili, edited by Everett Dodd, with lighting and photography directed by Robert Burks (his first credit in this field), and released by Warner Bros. Producer Gordon Hollingshead was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Short Subject, One-reel.

Jo Jones

He also starred in several films, most notably the musical short Jammin' the Blues (1944).

Marie Bryant

She also appeared as the head of a dance troupe in the movie Carolina Blues, and sang in the 1944 short film Jammin' the Blues, accompanied by Lester Young, Barney Kessel and others.

Marlowe Morris

He served in the Army during World War II, then worked with Toby Browne, Al Sears, Sid Catlett, and Tiny Grimes in addition to leading his own trio in the early and middle 1940s; he also appeared in the film Jammin' the Blues in 1944.

Norman Granz

In 1944, Granz and Gjon Mili produced the jazz film Jammin' the Blues, which starred Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Barney Kessel, Harry Edison, Jo Jones, Sidney Catlett, Marlowe Morris, and Marie Bryant, and was nominated for an Academy Award.


Dave's own version of Citadel

Along with its offshoots DOC has inspired at least four clone codebases, including YAWC, which is likely the oldest, Jammin, which has since become WeIrDo, bbs100 (which is licensed under GPL), and A better Citadel (ABC).

Jammin

Jammin was an original reality television series created by Sí TV that documents the attempts of six Latino bands to win a $10,000 cash prize and a Gibson sponsorship.

Jammin' Java

The 200-seat venue has hosted eminent artists such as Nick Jonas, Paramore, Bon Iver, Charlotte Martin and Ingrid Michaelson.

Jerry Rivers

It was a style that Hank dismissed as "garden seed" fiddle, but one which served Rivers well on many of Williams' greatest recordings, among them: "Moanin' The Blues" (1950), "Cold, Cold Heart" (1950), "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)" (1951), "Hey Good Lookin'" (1951) and "Jambalaya" (1952).

Joey Spampinato

On the group's first two albums, NRBQ (Columbia, 1969) and Boppin' the Blues (With Carl Perkins, Columbia, 1970) Spampinato is credited as "Jody St. Nicholas."

Red Rooster Records

Red Rooster Records is the record label founded by the band NRBQ in 1972 after being dropped by Columbia Records after lack of chart performance for their albums NRBQ and Boppin' the Blues.

Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton

In his review of the box set, music critic Richie Unterberger called it "Perhaps the most sumptuous, nay incredible, box set package ever devised for a blues artist."

Shootyz Groove

Within two years the band had a record deal with Mercury Records and released a live EP (recorded in Queens) in 1994, with their first full length album, Jammin' in Vicious Environments (J.I.V.E.), released a year later on vinyl and CD.

Union City Blue

The track was re-released on CD and vinyl in 1995 as a maxi-single in both the UK and US, featuring various remixes of the song by Diddy, Burger Queen, OPM and Jammin' Hot.

WBEN-FM

The format didn't last long; at Noon on May 13, 1999, in the middle of Sarah McLachlan's "Building a Mystery", the station became WEJM "Jammin' Gold", playing a blend of urban oldies from the '60s to the '80s, disco, classic dance tunes, and some '70s pop hits. The first song on "Jammin' Gold" was "Back Stabbers" by The O'Jays.


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