Sidney Bechet in a Hot Jazz Movie 1930 with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch

SIDNEY BECHET AND HIS NEW YORKERS 1930 in Berlin

Playing:
-Ich lass mir meinen Körper schwarz bepinseln (I´m gonna paint my body black)
-Lass mich einmal deine Carmen sein (Let me be your Carmen)
-Eine Liebelei so nebenbei (Just a little lovin)
-Kind, dein Mund ist Musik (Baby, your mouth is like music)

From the movie Einbrecher (Burglar) starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Heinz Rühmann, Oskar Sima and others.
While the story line acts in Paris, the movie was shoot in Berlin.
The last scenes are playing in a "typical Paris Negro Bar..". With this last part of the
movie you can hear Sidney Bechet and his Band.

Those scenes aren´t done in the studio - this bar you can see really existed! It is the Palmen Garten of the Haus Vaterland in Berlin. AND Bechet really played here with his Band in 1929/30 !
The movie was done between June and September 1930.
Prob. Band Members:
? Gabriel (tpt), Jimmy Bell (tpt/clt/alt), Sidney Bechet (sop/clt), ?Friedrich Hollaender?(piano), ?Harald M. Kirchstein? (gtr), ?Mike McKendrick (bjo), ?Hans Holdt (tuba), Paul Delvi (dms), Louis Douglas (dance)

There is another prob cast of the band:
Gabriel Dores, tp; Paul Buismann, tuba; Sidney Bechet, sop/cl; Lex van Spall, sax, gtr; Heinz Giehl, piano; William McAllan, bjo (on camera only); Paul Delvi, dms

Friedrich Hollander composed the music to the movie and wasn´t a regular Bandmember.
The vocals at the end "Kind dein Mund ist Musik" is by Greta Keller and Jo Sargent.
Keller and Sargent recorded "Kind dein Mund..." also for the Ultraphon Label:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-9UoVKIBuM

The dancer Louis Douglas came together with Josephine Baker and Bechet via the Revue Negré in 1925 to Paris. He stayed in Germany, but had to leave in 1933. He died 1939 in New York.

The last three titels are interrupted by dialogues, but even so the music gives a good idea of how Bechet sounded in 1930. Neither the film files nor title credits mention Bechet or any other of the negro artist.

Because of the hot jazz scenes and the negro actors, but also because Hollander and others
of the cast are jew, the movie was prohibited after 1933.

Although Bechet stayed in Europe from 1925 till 1930; 1929 and 1930 in Berlin, no record company take the chance to record him and his Band
So, this is the only known recording of Bechet between 1925 - 1931. Enjoy! (And also the sweet Lilian Harvey)

Sorry about the missing pictures at the end, I had some trouble with the file size
YT allows

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[shesogucci]

they comparin black ppl to monkeys and ape's duhh they used to do that alot

[formiggini]

@shesogucci That had been common in europe of the 1920´s - Not only in germany, sadly......

[stijnfromnetherlands]

F-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c, so much swing, groove, humor, and smart talk. Thanks, Brew, for pointing this clip out to me, and another thanks to the uploader!

Cheers from Haarem, NL --

Stijn

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

Ein Gedicht. Schmissige Tanzszenen, exzellente Dialoge und eine Lilian Harvey, die vielleicht nie schöner war als hier.

Besonderen Dank,

Bruno "Brew" Leicht

[SpeegBJ]

Black and white film: great back then, even in the U.S. Black and White performers? Never back then in the U.S. Thank you for this gorgeous post.

[danzwoot]

@shesogucci Well, actually in Germany the situation is a bit different, first of all belongs it to the Haus Vaterland decoration, secondly it is in absense of a negro population a very positive ethno connotation. Libertinage, back to the nature, romanticism, very German. Bechet expressed that Europe suited him better than the US for racism reasons. Bechet developed a very coital style that borrowed a lot from expressionism.

[phillippatterson1]

In a couple of years the national socialist party comes into power and then all the fun is over with!

[PaintedSidewalk]

Schwiizerdütsch?

[Morahman7vnNo2]

My what "Exotic" settings.

Ha ha ha...

[Atticus70]

Simply fantastic!

[gfks11]

Very cool and interesting, great jazz!!

[tobiasrueger]

1939 begannen zwei jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Berlin ihre Karriere als Inhaber des Jazz-Labels Blue Note mit einer Aufnahme von Sidney Bechet. Möglich, dass sie Bechet 1930 in Berlin kennengelernt hatten.

[tobiasrueger]

Das ist Musik von Friedrich Holaender (ab 07:25 am Flügel zu sehn): »Ich lass mir meinen Körper schwarz bepinseln und fahre nach den Fidschi-Inseln«, »Lass mich Deine Carmen sein!«. Der Fil heißt »Einbrecher«.

Übrigens: »Mit dem Flugzeug nach London oder nach Amerika!«, das muss damals ein völlig ausgeflippter Gedanke gewesen sein.

[Abriggs500]

JAZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!