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Cab Calloway performs two numbers at the Cotton Club, then takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party. (imdb)

Duke Ellington plays his symphonic jazz piece ('A Rhapsody of Negro Life') with his orchestra against slice-of-life background scenes. The four movements: 1) The Laborers, 2) A Triangle: Dance, Jealousy, Blues, 3) A Hymn of Sorrow, 4) Harlem Rhythm. (imdb)

A Al Christie comedy short featuring Johnny Arthur, Bert Roach & Frances Lee. (imdb)

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. (imdb)

In the first of Paramount's "Headliner" series, narrator Ted Husing travels up and down and around Broadway and other main stem New York City locations, and views the likes of Earl Carroll picking show-girls for hie Varieties; Al Jolson and Jack Benny rehearsing their radio programs; and other celebs, such as Gary Cooper visiting The Big Apple, and Bea Lillie and Sophie Tucker and others caught by the Headliner camera. (imdb)

In this short, introduced by Harry von Zell, Johnny Green and His Orchestra favour us with "Dinah," "Swanee River" and "Rhythm Is Our Business" amongst other selections.

Here is Johnny Green conducting his lush dance orchestra in a medley of four of his own popular compositions. His band singer Marjory Logan and The Tune Twisters (male trio) sing two more Green songs: "What Now" and "Not Bad." Green chastises his second pianist (and arranger), Dave Terry, for infringing on Green's musical territory. With the aid of trick photography, Green, with a wave of his baton, reduces the orchestra to miniature size, then Dave Terry does the same to Green. (imdb)

Ferde Grofe and His Radio Orchestra perform Grofe's "Yankee Doodle Rhapsody", an arrangement of popular American melodies. (imdb)

An all-girl band under the direction of Phil Spitalny play us a bunch of tunes.