Sidney Bechet - Jazz in Berlin 1930 + Lilian Harvey & Willy Fritsch

[@Lostintimes1]

What a splendid and strange combination at the same time! Very hot Bechet music with real cabaret scenes, Dresde beauty Harvey and Willy Fritsch, the absolute personification of the charm of the Weimar years!

[@ch.howell9891]

When I was a child my parents listened to this kind of music. I love it!

[@SpeegBJ]

Black and white film: great back then, even in the U.S. Black and White performers? Never back then in the U.S. Thank you for this gorgeous post.

[@Jotaemesg]

The two first minutes are simply SEN-SA-TIO-NAL, and the rest of the music heard here conveys also an unmistakable taste of these days.

[@philabob9]

Wonderful clip, thanks. It's far less racist than the horrible prejudice African-Americans had to deal with in their own country in the 20s and 30s. No American movie of the time would have shown a nightclub with a mixed black and white clientele. Black American performers were amazed at the respect they were treated with in pre-WW II Europe.

[@ABrandsma]

Well, there is at least Belle of the Nineties, where in 1934 Duke Ellington's band backed Mae West, who was married to an African-American husband and was so popular that she could command them working together. In the uncut versions there is even more of them together.

Das ist Musik von Friedrich Holaender (ab 07:25 am Flügel zu sehn): »Ich lass mir meinen Körper schwarz bepinseln und fahre nach den Fidschi-Inseln«, »Lass mich Deine Carmen sein!«. Der Fil heißt »Einbrecher«. Übrigens: »Mit dem Flugzeug nach London oder nach Amerika!«, das muss damals ein völlig ausgeflippter Gedanke gewesen sein.

[@bennyjazzful]

Incredible clip of Sidney Bechet & the other artists. Wonderful & very enjoyable. Well done

[@fwga3851]

Wunderbar! Thank you for uploading this film.

[@nickakdag]

At 0:52 he begins to tear it up. Seriously, no one played with a more energetic sound that Sidney.

[@yumyumwhatzohai]

Weimar Republic Berlin Night Scene was something else, wasn't?

[@Atticus70]

Simply fantastic!

[@fiejh]

Great clip. Bachet was very good at the continental-viennese-schmaltz and played it like an angel. Look out for a recording of him playing 'Song of Songs' You still find some traditional bands in the UK (with multi-reed frontlines) play some of these sweeter and less hot items. Thanks so much for posting this!

[@heinoverbeek]

Thank you for showing us this movie. I knew the music and Doctor Jazz magazine showed us years ago some pictures of it. But never saw the movie. Thanks Hein

[@Leotaurus1975]

Einzigartig! Danke Ulli!

[@prinsessemy]

Hi - I just looked for the DVD, and its in stock on the german Amazon page... :)

[@BalbirSingh-tt8rv]

Great recording.

[@Ronald070]

Wonderful! I knew that Bechet and his band played in this movie, but I didn't know that it was in such a extensive scene. I' m gonna look for the DVD.

[@jibedu]

La dernière chanson est interprétée en France par Henri Garat sous le titre "Un regard"...

[@Xelanderthomas]

Thanks for posting this.

[@betelorg]

A most unusual and historic, thank you.

[@ferencgulyas7838]

Brutal disco good job fellow Germans

[@blondecarmen]

Unglaublich !!!!

1939 begannen zwei jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Berlin ihre Karriere als Inhaber des Jazz-Labels Blue Note mit einer Aufnahme von Sidney Bechet. Möglich, dass sie Bechet 1930 in Berlin kennengelernt hatten.

[@kafenwar]

Alfred Lion und Max Margulis.

Alfred Löw und Frank Wolff ;-)

[@mrbable]

Wirklich wunderschöne Szene!Auch wenn sich leider noch (oder wieder) viel rechtes Geschmeiß unter uns tümmelt,glaube ich, dass sich gerade was die kulturelle Vielfalt angeht,schon viel getan hat.Kommt nach Berlin und schaut in die Bars und Clubs, Galerien, etc. ! Was hier an internationalem Austausch stattfindet ist wunderschön. Allerdings muss ich zugeben, dass mir der Jazz lieber ist, als der Elektro der die Welt (u.a.) nun hierher lockt. Und zweifellos hatten die goldenen 20er mehr Stil!

[@janeeigenhuis9073]

Lex van Spall was from Suriname and one of the pioneers of Jazz in the Netherlands. He made great recordings with Rosie Poindexter in 1934 that can also be found on youtube.

[@ambassadonian]

Lovely number at 3:20!

[@kimpeter9253]

8.28 Bechet´s soprano to the end !!

[@davidglow3]

He probably did not record for those 5 years because of his temper and aggression.He was difficult to deal with and record companies could well have shunned him because of his personality.Truly brilliant player

[@chefessboo]

My dad called Sidney -Sippy ,that's his NO. Name . I met him in Europe in late fifties, he was reminiscing with Kid -my daddy. Met Louis Armstrong for what would be 16 years of Louis &Trummy Young,&many more after Kid passed in73

[@bernieguitar5856]

your dad was Kid Ory?

[@chefessboo]

Yes

[@bernieguitar5856]

+Babette Ory still watching this video..I can't believe You Tube. I'm 60 and I just got a smartphone! can you believe it? I play this music in Florida

[@stevekindler]

Ms. Ory, that is a priceless reminiscence! That you so very much for sharing it with us! Your father was such a great and influential musician.. warmest regards to his family.

[@mughali]

Respect Babette Ory, jazz blood

[@tomlovejoy2141]

Spitze!

[@ginguenga]

wowowowowowowow

[@dairyman716]

Leider habe ich dem Film noch nie ganz gesehen.

[@Dijand1000]

Muito Bom.

[@jibedu]

great!

[@maxlinder5262]

English translation is ....what ????? Can't understand ???😮

[@MrKane101111]

It's cool seeing a club with all the different races jamming together (even though the darker members do unfortunately seem to have been a bit over animated in the scene)

[@adithyakini]

i want to smoke what ever it is that got them to do that...

[@MsZoedog66]

Lol!

[@vadimastprojects8770]

It's called "freedom."

[@dinovolare]

Wie großartig. Hat jemand nähere Informationen, ob es von diesem Auftritt noch mehr gibt, wie der Film heisst etc? Ich wäre dankbar.

[@formiggini]

Jack Volare Steht oben in der Beschreibung ;) Der Film heist "Einbrecher", es ist die einzige Szene mit Bechet. Leider "versäumten" es die Plattenfirmen Sidney Bechet aufzunehmen während er sich in Berlin aufhielt.

[@dinovolare]

***** Danke dir für die Erläuterung. Sehr schön. Notiz an mich: Beschreibungen ab und zu auch mal anklicken, die beissen nicht.

[@nobbel65]

Der Film ist auch auf DVD verfügbar --- die habe ich.

[@PeterAndWillAnderson]

Peter & Will Anderson "Le Jazz Hot" Dec 3-29 @ 59E59 Theaters

[@wacalinka]

świetne:)

[@RichardSipesCartoonForKids1271]

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[@TheJayblaze3]

Where's Sidney? I came here for Sidney

[@sethhalpern3375]

Wonderful historical artifact. I can see why the Nazis had a collective stroke over this sort of thing. Though I wonder how many of them secretly patronized the same club.

[@freddrog4689]

The Nazis had their own jazz orchestra called "Charlie and his Orchestra", which is odd considering they are accused of hating jazz and 'degenerate' art

[@cgnbooks]

Well, I once saw a photograph of Friedrich Holländer just dressed up like the band members in this movie and his face was black. Is he by any chance the bandleader (you see him most of the time from behind) in this clip. Or was what I saw just a publicity still?

[@PaintedSidewalk]

Schwiizerdütsch?

[@markfisher2121]

Lilian Harvey sprach auch später gut Schwiizerdütsch 😘 mit einem Solothurner Dialekt. Mark

[@mrbable]

@odysseetheater hehe, "im Fernsehen umschauen" ist fürwahr eine sehr deprimierende Angelegenheit, weswegen ich es einfach lasse. =)

[@TheZackBriggs]

JAZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bimhimbim]

The Prussian anthem gets paraphrased...

[@petersmith6847]

Some English subtitles would have been good.

[@bimhimbim]

@odysseetheater Da wäre ich gar nicht mal so überzeugt.

[@TheJayblaze3]

I don't care what era it was in the 21st century(Also 25 generations before). You always had white overseerers

[@MrRawdoc]

Es ist je doch Hochdeutsch, nicht Scwyzerdeutsch...wass fuer Bloedsinn....

[@feilipeng]

mais ... c'est nul !!

[@RichardSipesCartoonForKids1271]

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