Ella Fitzgerald Live at Jazz Festival de Cannes, Qwest TV

Jazz and the Riviera is a timehonored tradition, with its summer posters imprinted on the memory, such as the famous AntibesJuanlesPins festival piece. Another great musical event, the Cannes Jazz Festival, marks a natural response to its springtime film counterpart. It can be considered a confounding phenomenon, especially when few know the close links between this music and the seventh art. Taken from the ORTF collections, this anthology covers the 1958 edition. Its a gathering of stars that jostles with energy and prestige. Sidney Bechet s I ve Found A New Baby is as lively as ever, and wins audience support and the imperial Ella Fitzgerald revisits Just Squeeze Me (But Don t Tease Moreover, Coleman Hawkins is immortalized with Roy Eldridge on trumpet, and Dizzy Gillespie redoubles his energy alongside an imposing Martial Solal. Note that this anthology is completed by various shots, including one of the Croisette and its swimmers, the arrival of the stars on the tarmac of the French Rivi