Summary: A comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that have made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game's official inventor, Dr. James Naismith. Also explores the YMCA's early role as a "pipeline for spreading basketball over the world". Pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEAmmons, Gene.
Contents: Twisting the jug (4:38) -- Born to be blue (7:18) -- Satin doll (6:43) -- Moten swing (4:56) -- Stormy Monday blues (8:40) -- Down the line (5:38) -- Velvet soul (8:54) -- In Sid's thing (5:25) -- Blue room (5:34) -- Water jug (5:10) -- Angel eyes (8:45) -- Gettin' around (6:50).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige 1977
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ AMMContents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999