#paulwhiteman

The film is available on YouTube(it doesn’t really have a plot but it’s fun to watch)

King of Jazz is a 1930 American Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. The film title was taken from Whiteman’s self-conferred appellation. At the time the film was made, “jazz”, to the general public, meant the jazz-influenced syncopated dance music which was being heard everywhere on phonograph records and through radio broadcasts. In the 1920s Whiteman signed and featured white jazz musicians including Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang (both are seen and heard in the film), Bix Beiderbecke (who had left before filming began), Frank Trumbauer and others. There is a possibility that one of the people appearing in the film was the great-uncle of Kurt Cobain (the late vocalist and guitarist of Nirvana).

It Happened in Monterey by Billy Rose and Mabel Wayne #1930 #vintage #sheetmusic #sheetmusicart #vintagesheetmusic #paulwhiteman #kingofjazz #jazz

📸Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Repost from @stevebluemusic Tomorrow's show! Wednesday at 5pm. The Roaring '20's! And, I mean the REAL Roaring 20's! On IT'S A GAS! On KLBP FM 99.1 LONG BEACH or stream at www.klbp.org. Flappers! Bathtub gin! 23-skidoo! They knew how to party! #KLBP #fannybrice , #roaring20s , #dorothyprovine #paulwhiteman https://www.instagram.com/p/CLGN-qJLBbR/?igshid=f85wnpbjduxm

Merry Widow Waltz by Franz Lehar and Carl Field #1935 #paulwhiteman #vintage #vintagesheetmusic #sheetmusic #sheetmusicart #art #music #1930s

This morning's book listing tunes #paulwhiteman #radiodismuke #rythmrag #jazz #swing #jazzera #rudyvallee #rudyvalleeandhisconnecticutyankees (at Dodge Center, Minnesota)