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	The Jazz Singer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jazz Singer is a 1927 U.S. movie musical notable for being the first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences.
		The rest of the film's soundtrack is instrumental musical accompaniment and sound effects, with most of the dialogue presented through the standard caption cards prevalent in silent movies of the era.
		The film opened the door to the evolution of sound film and signaled the end of the era of the silent film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Jazz_Singer (1766 words)

	Film in American Popular Culture
		To dismiss this particular film version as merely “bad” does not address the significance of this film as a part of a specific cultural immigrant imaginary that is informed by the discourse of the ethnic revival of the late 1960s and 1970s.
		The novelty of the film, technically speaking, was certainly a major draw (though it was not, in actuality, the first “talkie” produced) and the appearance of jazz, a popular music form at the time of the film's release, would have helped in box office sales.
		And, as David Kehr asserts, the film is a narrative of identity conflict and resolution, and this resolution is multicultural in scope.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /archive/film/neil_diamond.htm (4853 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Ella Fitzgerald
		For decades Fitzgerald has been considered the quintessential female jazz singer and has drawn copious praise from admirers as diverse as Charlie Parker and the singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
		This enables her to give performances that rival those of the best jazz instrumentalists in their virtuosity, particularly in her improvised scat solos, for which she is justly famous.
		Unlike trained singers, she shows strain about the break in her voice (d' and beyond) which, however, she uses to expressive purpose in the building of climaxes.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_fitzgerald_ella.htm (540 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Jazz Singer (1927) at Epinions.com
		The film is mostly silent with traditional silent-film titles, but in moments with sound, viewers got to hear the cast members actually sing, and even speak, which was unusual for viewers of that particular time period.
		People have often criticized this film for its use of "flface" make-up, which was a Jolson trademark (and even worse, associating this film with The Birth of a Nation).
		In effect, much of the complaints towards this film's use of flface imagery are due to the film's final sequence, in which Jolson performs the song "My Mammy" in flface.
	www.epinions.com /content_184893214340 (1210 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: The Jazz Singer
		The Jazz Singer recounts the story of Jakie Rabinowitz, the son of immigrant parents in New York, who is expected to succeed his father, as well as many ancestors, as the cantor in their synagogue.
		The film is primarily a silent film with a musical soundtrack, but in several scenes, synchronized singing and dialogue are presented, most notably in the scene where Jack sings to his mother and after finishing one song says to her "You ain't heard nothin' yet."
		Even though the music in the film is not, strictly speaking, jazz music, its does contain elements of jazz style, such as increased syncopation and a blues tonality.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100641 (698 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: The Jazz Singer
		Between The Jazz Singer of 1927 and The Jazz Singer of 1980 more than 250 musicals were produced for the American cinema, both imports from Broadway and originals written directly for the screen.
		The first Jazz Singer, for example, ran into trouble right away when George Jessel, who played the role on Broadway and was signed to reprise it on film, had a major disagreement with the studio, Warner Brothers.
		In addition, The Jazz Singer is noted for introducing one of the earliest quintessential Jewish mothers on screen, played by Eugenie Besserer, a leading character actress of the day who had appeared in more than 30 films by the time she played Mama Rabinowitz.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/Film/Film_TO/JazzSinger.htm (1237 words)

	The Jazz Singer (1927)
		Warner Bros.' and director Alan Crosland's The Jazz Singer (1927) is an historic milestone film and cinematic landmark.
		Audiences were wildly enthusiastic when America's favorite jazz singer and superstar Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson in 1886, not the first choice for the role, and played onstage by George Jessel) broke into song, ad-libbed extemporaneously with his mother at the piano, and proclaimed the famous line to introduce a musical number:
		The film was remade twice: Warners' and director Michael Curtiz' The Jazz Singer (1952) with Danny Thomas (as Jerry Golding) and Peggy Lee (as Judy Lane), and director Richard Fleischer's The Jazz Singer (1980) with singer-songwriter Neil Diamond in the lead role as the cantor's son with legendary co-star Laurence Olivier as his father.
	www.filmsite.org /jazz.html (1236 words)

	The Jazz Singer [1981] Video at Shop Ireland
		The Jazz Singer takes the wonderfull music of Niel Diamond and puts it to a very good script.
		This is a moving and emotional portrayal of the Jazz Singer....
		I bought the Jazz Singer DVD in Dublin a few days ago it's a hoary old cult classic with a very naturalistic performance from Neil Diamond in the title role coupled with some cracking tunes.
	www.shopireland.ie /video/detail/b00004cjb9/the-jazz-singer-[1980]- (969 words)

	The Jazz Singer [1980] - Compare prices
		Back in 1927, The Jazz Singer entered the history books as the first true, sound-on-film talking picture, with Al Jolson uttering the immortal words, "You ain't heard nothing yet!" But even then it was a creakingly sentimental old yarn.
		By the time this second remake showed up in 1980 (there was a previous one in 1953) it looked as ludicrously dated as a chaperone in a strip club.
		Our young hero, played by pop singer Neil Diamond in a doomed bid for movie stardom, is the latest in a long line of Jewish cantors, but secretly moonlights with a Harlem soul group.
	www.priceclash.co.uk /the-jazz-singer (222 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Sarah Vaughan
		This reputation endured in part because of her tendency to treat her voice more as a jazz instrument than as a vehicle for lyrics: she negotiated wide leaps within her full-bodied contralto range, improvised subtle melodic and rhythmic embellishments, and made fluid alterations of timbre from a bell-like clarity to a bluesy growl.
		During the five-year contract with Columbia that marked her rise to stardom (1949-54), she recorded often with studio orchestras and only once in a jazz context (with Miles Davis in 1950).
		From 1978 to 1980 the trio became a quartet under the leadership of Vaughan's then manager, conductor, and husband, Waymon Reed.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_vaughan_sarah.htm (517 words)

	The Jazz Singer (1927) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		he thought sound in film was too risky a venture to try and took a pass.
		Al Jolson went on to stardom and George became known as a toastmaster at Hollywood roasts.
		Seeing this film will bring back all these images and place them in their proper contexts.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0018037 (487 words)

	Comparison of The Jazz Singer, 1927 and 1980
		It was a landmark film, the first to use spoken dialogue synched with the film.
		It has been known as the first "talkie", although the majority of the film utilized subtitles, and was primarily a "silent" movie.
		In 1980, the 2nd remake of the movie was released, starring Neil Diamond in the lead, and co-starring screen legend Laurence Olivier.
	home.netcom.com /~zmoq/pages/jazzsing.htm (1679 words)

	The Jazz Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This film was not the first sound film.
		Eugene Lauste made sound films 1910-1914, Edison made kinetophone films in 1913, Western Electric showed "The Audion" at Yale on Oct. 27, 1922, and made "Hawthorne: in 1924, Warner made the Vitaphone short "The Volga Boatman" May 24, 1926, and released "Don Juan" on August 6, 1926.
		The "Jazz Singer" opens with young Jakie Rabinowitz, the son of a Jewish cantor, singing in a saloon.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/filmnotes/jazzsingernotes.html (327 words)

	National Yiddish Book Center - Winter Film Festival
		According to Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting, The Jazz Singer is more than a popular play or the first talking picture, it is a story that explores the “charged issues of patriarchal order, family obligation, secular success, assimilation, and racial identity in one melodramatic package”.
		Produced in 1956, this post-Holocaust version of The Jazz Singer tells the story of a concentration camp survivor (once again played by Moishe Oysher) who has amnesia, emigrates to the United States and becomes a night club singer.
		Sunday, February 29, we will see the third film version of The Jazz Singer, starring pop singer Neil Diamond as Yussel Rabinowitz, the son of a cantor, who sings and writes songs for a fl soul group and moves to California to find success through his music.
	www.yiddishbookcenter.org /+10132 (408 words)

	the jazz singer 1980 composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is the plot synopsis of The Jazz Singer, the 1927 Warner Bros. film famous...
		The NY Times review of The Jazz Singer, a Alan Crosland film starring Al Jolson...
		Still, the 1980 remake of the Jazz Singer has as many moments as the original did.
	www.getjazzinfo.com /25/the-jazz-singer-1980-composer.html (340 words)

	:: The Jazz Singer at games.categoryshop.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Not much jazz spoken in this 1980 version of the Jolson classic, directed by Richard Fleischer (The Vikings) and starring a very tentative Neil Diamond as a cantor's son who would rather sing commercially than in a synagogue.
		The soundtrack is tedious, the portrait of L.A.'s music industry preposterous, and Diamond (despite his talents as a singer-songwriter in the real world) can't help but look like a speck on the wall in the presence of Laurence Olivier, who plays his father.
		To celebrate a 25th anniversary of a horrendous film, shows how pathetic some people in Hollywood are just to make a buck.
	games.categoryshop.com /a/6302906644/The_Jazz_Singer.shtml (657 words)

	Timeline Jazz
		He was one of the first to orchestrate jazz music and disputed W.C. Handy's claim to be the originator of jazz and blues.
		1903 Mar 1, Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In a Mist), was born in Iowa.
		1903 Mar 10, Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist and composer, was born.
	timelines.ws /subjects/Jazz.HTML (13784 words)

	1980 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar, opens in London.
		Sharon Stone makes her film debut in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (released September 26 in USA)
		This page was last modified 15:53, 24 December 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_in_film (182 words)

	Movie Review - Jazz Singer, The (1980) - eFilmCritic
		Jesus man. This film is considered a remake of the original Jazz Singer, and a very bad one.
		Gosh, Lucy Arnaz is fucking annoying in the entire film, you just wanted her to grab some duct tape and silence her fucking mouth.
		In the end, only rent this film for the music, rent it, turn your TV down, and pump up the volume to your stereo and skip through the songs.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=5008&reviewer=235 (994 words)

	A Jewish Film Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Story of Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer despite his father's objections.
		TEXT: A film on the Yemenite immigration to Israel.
		One of 4 Israeli films made in 1956, it was the sleeper and the most successful.
	members.aol.com /jewfilm/jewj.html (891 words)

	Movie Info for The Jazz Singer on MSN Movies
		The moth-eaten story concerns a cantor's son who desires success as a pop singer, despite the wishes of his imperious father.
		The film takes place in the present day with Yussel Rabinowitz (Neil Diamond) playing a young (though middle-aged looking) cantor performing at the synagogue of his father (Laurence Olivier).
		Gigmasters has thousands of talented jazz singers for hire throughout the U.S. and Canada.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=117490 (309 words)

	The Jazz Singer (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Recording superstar Neil Diamond makes his movie debut in The Jazz Singer, the 1980's updated version of the Al Jolson classic, as a fifth generation cantor who struggles to find expression through his own songs in the highly competitive world of popular music.
		Catlin Adams stars as the tradition-bound wife who doesn't understand her husband's desire to leave the safe community provided by the synagogue.
		The movie features 10 songs composed and recorded live on film by Diamond, whose music has entertained millions of people throughout the world for more than two decades.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Discs/Disc.asp?ID=2370 (191 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Friday After Next
		", and in his debut film "Boyz N The Hood" (1991) plays the role of (Craig Jones).
		But at the same time makes the film seem tiresome to watch because you have seen this before in the two previous films "Friday", and "Next Friday".
		Jones played by (John Witherspoon) made his first appearance on the television series "The Richard Pryor Show" (1977), and in one of his early film roles in the (1980) film "The Jazz Singer".
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/fridayafternext.html (377 words)

	The Nitpickers Site: Movie Nitpick - Jazz Singer, The - 1980
		In the 1980 version of THE JAZZ SINGER with Neil Diamond, notice the scenes where Neil is singing SUMMERLOVE, and HEY LOUISE.
		If you watch just before he goes out on the stage for the first time, LUCIE ARNAZ is wearing a sparkling purple dress, with a flower in her hair.
		When Neil sings AMERICA at the end of the film (ONE YEAR LATER IN THE TIMELINE OF THE FILM, AFTER FIRST CONCERT), she is sitting in the audience with the same dress on, and the same flower in her hair.
	www.nitpickers.com /movies/nitpick.cgi?np=13915 (363 words)

	The Songs Of Shirley Bassey : Song info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Plot outline from the Internet of the film "The Jazz Singer" 1927 with Al Jolson as Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin): Jake Rabinowitz, son of a Jewish Cantor runs away from home and become jazz singer Jack Robin.
		He has sucess, but when his father dies he gives up his chances on Broadway and takes over the duties of the cantor at the synagouge.
		Finally, a plot outline of the latest version from 1980: Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
	www.songsofshirleybassey.co.uk /song/sng95003.html (262 words)

	The Jazz Singer (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"The Jazz Singer" is supposed to be an update of the Al Jolson chestnut (replete with Diamond appearing in fl-face at one point!!) but the only connection between these two films is that a cantor's son wants to break into show business.
		I even liked where Diamond auditions for a spot as a country bar singer and breaks into "You are My Sunshine".
		To sum up - all the dramatic highlights are really low-lights; the so-called actors involved with this should all turn in their SAG cards; and it's small wonder Fleischer has been regulated to directing films like "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" and "Amityville 3: The Demon" after this disaster.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0080948 (628 words)

	All about Lucie Arnaz.
		Diamond and Sir Laurence Olivier, and her most recent feature film, "Down To You", with Henry Winkler and Freddie Prinze, Jr.
		Lucie's first album "Just In Time" was released in 1993 by Concord Jazz, Inc. One of Lucie's own tunes can be heard on this CD, "View From Here", written by Lucie with Madeline Stone in the late 70s.
		In 1980, Lucie married fellow actor, theatre and Broadway star Laurence Luckinbill.
	www.luciearnaz.com /Lucieall.html (630 words)

	channel4.com/film - The Jazz Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		An inauspicious film debut for the singer Diamond who, in this remake of the classic Al Jolson talkie, is cast as Yussel, a New York synagogue cantor who decides not to follow in his father's and forefathers' footsteps, but opts instead for a life fling up and singing with a Harlem soul band.
		When he is caught out one night by a customer, his disapproving father (Olivier) has to bail him out of jail.
		The strain of acting opposite a larger-than-luvvie Olivier clearly took its toll, for Diamond's acting is, to say the least, perfunctory.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=104760 (118 words)

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