Jazz Dance

  • Roger Tilton
  • 1954
  • United States
  • 20 minutes
  • English
  • © Richard Leacock
    © Richard Leacock

An evening at the Central Park Dance Hall in New-York in 1954 with the trumpeter Jimmy McPatrland, the clarinettist Pee Wee Russel, and Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith at the piano. Filmed by Richard Leacock et Bob Campbell, Jazz Dance captures the essence of the audience’s and musicians’ unrestrained joy.

  • Production : Roger Tilton
  • Editing : Richard S. Brummer
  • Sound : Richard S. Brummer
  • Photography : Bob M. Campbell; Richard Leacock
  • Copy Contact : Museum of Modern Art / Moma