
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas

Watch movie: Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas Released in (2013) produced by United Kingdom, UK, The movie categorized in Documentary, Music, and content rating U with duration 59 min Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Chris Rodley. The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s, to fill nightclubs and saloons across the US in the 50s and early 60s as a force in her own right. Looking at the lives and careers of six individual singers (Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone and Annie Ross), the film not only talks to those who knew and worked with these queens of jazz, but also to contemporary singers who sit on the shoulders of these trailblazing talents without having to endure the pain and hardship it took for them to make their highly individual voices heard above the prejudice of mid-century America.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Actor: Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Annie Ross, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux, Billie Holiday, Carleen Anderson, Bob Dorough
Director: Chris Rodley
Country: United Kingdom, UK
Produced By: BBC Four
Runtime: 59
Release: 2013
Rating: 8 out of 10
Language: English,
Views: 287
Content Rating:U
Quality: DVD