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Jazz Night At The Movies With Mark Cantor at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Raven Performing Arts Theater
Courtesy of Gerry Sanders | Posted on April 30, 2019
Where
Raven Performing Arts Theater
Healdsburg Jazz Festival
115 North St.
Healdsburg, CA
Map
(707) 433-6335
When
Thu, June 6, 2019
7:00 pm
Save the date
Musicians
About
Anyone out there old enough to remember a jazz musician named Bob Howard? Born in 1906, he was a successful swing pianist and singer who was the first African American to get a network television series – “The Bob Howard Show” on CBS in 1948. Footage from this show has never been discovered – until now, when Mark Cantor got his hands on it.
Cantor, the world’s foremost jazz film archivist, returns this year to the Healdsburg Jazz Festival with his basket of goodies culled from the rarefied corners of movies, TV, and jukeboxes. Jukeboxes? Yes, because in the 1940s it was possible to find refrigerator-size jukeboxes called Panorams that played motion picture shorts called “Soundies.” Put in your dime and see some Duke Ellington, or maybe the girl group International Sweethearts of Rhythm....