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Based on the success of a series of Los Angeles jazz concerts, [[Warner Bros.]] produced the 20-minute film '''''Jammin&#39; the Blues''''' to showcase musicians [[Lester Young]], [[Harry Edison]], [[Barney Kessel]], [[Red Callender]], and vocalist [[Marie Bryant]]. Concerts organizer Norman Granz assembled the musicians and the innovative ''Life'' magazine photographer Gjon Mili directed. Jazz musicians had never been filmed as they were in ''Jammin&#39; the Blues''. The sets and lighting gave the artists an evocative background against which to perform and the mobile cameras captured them interacting with each other naturally and comfortably.

''Jammin&#39; the Blues'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 1995.

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