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Basin Street Revue
USA 1956
produced by Ben Frye for Studio Films
directed by Leonard Kohn
starring Willie Bryant, Sarah Vaughan, Lionel Hampton, Paul Williams, Jimmy Brown, Amos Milburn, Faye Adams, Coles and Atkins (= Charles 'Honi' Coles, Cholly Atkins), Herb Jeffries, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Nat 'King' Cole, Martha Davis, Mantan Moreland, Nipsey Russell, The Clovers
written by Ben Frye, Leonard Reed
review by Mike Haberfelner
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If you have seen Rock'n'Roll Revue and Rhythm
and Blues Revue, you might come to the conclusion that this is
pretty much more of the same - a collection of live-performances of some
of the finest black musicians of their day at the famous Harlem Apollo
Theatre, hosted by Willie Bryant and
with comedy by Nipsey Russell and Mantan Moreland, the
latter two doing another one of Mantan's famous (and quite hilarious) infinite
talk routines -, and of course you are right ... but that is not to
say that Basin Street Blues is a bad film, quite the contrary: It's
another great testimony of the vibrant black music scene of the 1950's and
its inflence on pop music that can be felt to this day, half a century
later.
Any music lover will want to, will have to watch this !
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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