JAZZ ON A SPRING DAY

Nine newly-restored shorts featuring giants of 20th century jazz and blues, including St. Louis Blues (1929) with Bessie Smith; Black and Tan Fantasy (1929), with Duke Ellington and Fredi Washington; Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932), with Louis Armstrong; Cab Calloway’s Hi-De-Ho (1933); Bundle of Blues (1933), with Ellington; Hoagy Carmichael (1939), with Hoagy and Jack Teagarden; Symphony in Black (1935), with Ellington and Billie Holiday; and more! Approx 100 min. DCP restorations courtesy Cohen Film Collection. 
12:30, 4:20, 8:10* 
*8:10 show introduced by Will Friedwald, columnist for The Wall Street Journal and author of eight books on music and popular culture

SYNCOPATION

(1942, William Dieterle) 1906 New Orleans and a 7-year-old boy’s Bach solo starts sounding like… jazz! — and soon he’s “King of the Cornet” Jackie Cooper, while stride pianist Bonita Granville gets arrested for playing “boogie-woogie,” in musical saga tracing jazz’s evolution from Dixieland and ragtime right into the swing era, as Adolphe Menjou, George Bancroft, and Todd Duncan (Gershwin’s original “Porgy”) look on. With cameos by Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, and Joe Venuti. Approx. 89 min. DCP restoration, from an original 35mm fine grain master struck by the Library of Congress from the nitrate negative. Courtesy Cohen Film Collection.
2:30, 6:20, 10:20