-- Synopsis: At the Jazz Band Ball brings together some of the greatest hot music, song, and dance captured at the height of the jazz age and in the early days of sound film (1925-1933). Bessie Smith's only screen performance, a rare clip of the Boswell Sisters harmonizing on a Louis Armstrong classic, and an instrumental from the Dorsey Brothers Band with superb solos from Tommy and Jimmy. Charlie Wellman, Tessie Maize (a featured artist at Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club in Los Angeles) and black-faced performer Ruby Darby.

* This film features "BoJangles" Robinson doing his famous stair dance routine, Duke Ellington's Cotton Club Orchestra featuring a floor show with Fredi Washington, ?The Cotton Club Boys? (maybe,) a dance contest with James Barton, Harlem Lindy Hoppers, Shorty George Snowden and Big Bea dancing to Chick Webb's band in 1929 and Tessie Maize and Ruby Darby dancing in a dance hall. The dancing varies from bad chorus line to totally amazing. This is one of the only a few films you will see the legendary "Shorty George" Snowden do his Charleston / Cakewalk / Lindy hop. Video and DVD is excellent quality.