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Jam Session is a film of genre Musical directed by Josef Berne released in USA on 1 january 1942
Jam Session (1942)
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Add to a movie listJam Session is a 1942 short film, directed by Josef Berne, which shows Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing C Jam Blues.
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the 3-minute, black-and-white film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Jam Session is included on the DVD Duke Ellington: Early Tracks from the Master of Swing (2006).
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