Cab Calloway: Smokey Joe; Duke Ellington: Stormy Weather; Red Nichols: When a St. Louis Woman; Louis Armstrong: That's Why They Call Me Shine; Louis Prima: China Town; Betty Hutton: Dippsi Doodie; Henry Busse: Hot Lips; Hal Kemp Big Band: Swamp Fire; Gene Krupa: Jungle Madness; Lawrence Welk: Ain't She Sweet; Buddy Rich/Artie Shaw: Take Your Pick; Rudee Vallee: You'll Do it Someday; The Mills Brothers: I Ain't Got Nobody; Ina Rae Hutton: Truckin'; Russ Morgan: Wahbash Blues; Bob Crosby: How'd You Like To; Isham Jones: 2nd Rhapsody; Bob Chester: Improvisation; The Dorsey Brothers: John Silver; Peggy Lee: It's a Good Day; Johnny Scatt Davis: Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition; Sammy Davis, Jr.: Boogie Woogie Piggie.
Whether it's the barrelhouse, ragtime, syncopation, scat, swing, bebop, hard-bop, re-bop, boogie-woogie or jive, it is still Jazz!
Compiled from master recordings that were forgotten in the vaults of Hollywood studios, The Golden Age of Jazz captures the motion pictures of some of greatest artists in the history of Jazz.