Book Cover
Streaming video

Title Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file)
Series Online access with DDA: Kanopy
Summary Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be In Love is a lyrical film portrait of the once famous, and now, largely forgotten jazz vocalist Maxine Sullivan. Sullivan won fame in the 1930s with swing renditions of traditional songs like "Loch Lomond" and "Annie Laurie." By the late 1930s she became one of the foremost women in jazz. A black, female vocalist in America, she inspired young musicians like Ella Fitzgerald. Film footage, vintage photographs, reminiscences by other jazz luminaries, as well as Sullivan's wonderfully seductive music are used to tell her story and document her place in jazz history. Featuring interviews with pianist Marian McPartland of NPR's Piano Jazz and tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton (Blue Note Records). Though largely absent from the jazz scene in the 1950s, she returned to perform in the late 1960s; at one point turning out an album every three months. She never retired and continued to work till her death in 1987. Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be In Love made its theatrical premiere at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and the Film Forum, New York. Featuring Scott Hamilton and Marion McPartland. Produced and directed by Greta Schiller. Produced in association with Channel Four UK and La Sept, France
Analysis History - Modern
Music
North American Studies, Gender Studies, Documentaries
Race and Class Studies
Notes Title from title frames
In Process Record
Performer Features: Marian McPartland, Ella Fitzgerald
Event Originally produced by Jezebel Productions in 1991
Notes In English
Subject Streaming video.
Internet videos.
streaming video.
Internet videos.
Streaming video.
Genre/Form Internet videos.
Internet videos.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Form Streaming video
Author Schiller, Greta, filmmaker
Kanopy (Firm)