Jazz Scrapbook (1983)

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.

Released Jan. 27, 1983 70 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Music

Keywords: imdb.band, imdb.victoria-australia, imdb.prague-czechoslovakia, imdb.melbourne-australia, imdb.musician, imdb.water, imdb.town-hall + 20 more, imdb.scrapbook, imdb.river, imdb.riverboat, imdb.music-history, imdb.modern-jazz, imdb.jive, imdb.jazz, imdb.jazz-singer, imdb.jazz-score, imdb.jazz-club, imdb.interview, imdb.interviewer, imdb.interviewee, imdb.dixielanders, imdb.boat, imdb.boating, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.1950s, imdb.1940s, imdb.1930s