Just me again. I wanted to provide a very brief history of Jazz in film, starting with The Jazz Singer. Not much of a comedy episode, admittedly. As a side note, I use "era" when I mean "legacy" a few times.
Music Featured (in order)
Miles Davis - "Generique"
The Jazz Singer - "Toot, Toot, Tootsie!" (movie clip)
Louis Armstrong - "Hello Dolly"
Detective Conan OST - "Conan's Victory Theme"
Videos Used
The Benny Goodman Story Trailer (Universal-Int.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyRv6bv4cfM
Portrait of Jason Trailer (Milestone)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ehssx01b0
Sources
>Allen Morrison, "The Sound of Film to Come: How Jazz Fell in Love With the Movies" (The Guardian, 2016)
>Peter Townsend, Jazz in American Culture (2000)
>Tom Perchard, After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France (2015)
>Joshua Berette, Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz (2004)
>"Paul Whiteman: American Bandleader" (Britannica, 2020)