Scenes through the Cinema Lens is a film retrospective focusing on the performing arts -such as jazz, dance or music- in film. Curated by Krin Gabbard. Scenes through the Cinema Lens Curator, Krin Gabbard, is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at SUNY Stony Brook. Gabbard is the author of Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema, Psychiatry and the Cinema and Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture.
Part 3: Billie’s Children: Ladies Sing the Blues - An evening of great female jazz singers. Billie Holiday said that she learned how to sing jazz from Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. But how many jazz singers learned it from Billie? In addition to classic footage of Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Abbey Lincoln, Anita O’Day, and Sarah Vaughan, we’ll see new film of performances by Diana Krall and Jane Monheit.
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