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Lady Be Good: Instrumental Women in Jazz

🎞️ Movie 120 min US
2008

This 80 minute documentary film concentrates on the contributions of American women instrumentalists in jazz from the early 1920s to the 1970s and the development and extent of the all-woman jazz groups. LADY BE GOOD captures the lost stories of female jazz musicians in provocative and often humorous interviews with women musicians, big band leaders, jazz authors and historians, Musician and composer Patrice Rushen guides us through these exciting histories with rare photos, previously unseen film and television footage, and scarce recordings. Join Peggy Gilbert, Marian McPartland, Carline Ray, Quincy Jones, Jane Sager and many others in this important new narrative.

Cast

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Patrice Rushen
Narrator
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Mark Hubatsek
Cinematographer
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Bruce Hutson
Cinematographer
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Erich Volkstorf
Cinematographer