If you're wondering why there are shouts of jubilation from film buffs and aficionados of pre-swing-era music it's because the Criterion Collection has released a beautiful Blu - ray and DVD of King of
Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys trio, jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the piece just six years earl
Jazz (1930), The movie features Bing Crosby's first appearance onscreen, as part of the Rhythm Boys
trio,
jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the piece just six years earl
jazz giants Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and a spectacular rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue» by Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader who commissioned the
piece just six years earlier.