Movie Details
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Mark Cooper
Production Companies:BBC Four
Queens of Jazz The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas on the Web:Official Website
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Queens of Jazz The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
59 minDocumentary,
Music
The documentary tracks the divas difficult progress as she emerges from the tough testosteronefuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s to fill nightclubs and saloons across the US in the 50s and early 60s as a force in her own right Looking at the lives and careers of six individual singers Billie Holiday Ella Fitzgerald Peggy Lee Sarah Vaughan Nina Simone and Annie Ross the film not only talks to those who knew and worked with these queens of jazz but also to contemporary singers who sit on the shoulders of these trailblazing talents without having to endure the pain and hardship it took for them to make their highly individual voices heard above the prejudice of midcentury America
DirectorChris Rodley
