Watching Jazz : Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen

SUMARIO. Shaping screen media. Framing jazz : thoughts on representation and embodiment ; Peter Elsdon / All aboard! : soundies and Vitaphone shorts ; Emile Wennekes / Assimilating and domesticating jazz in 1950s American variety television : Nat King Cole's transformation from guest star to national host ; Kristin McGee / Jazz is where you find it : encountering jazz on BBC television, 1946-66 ; Jenny Doctor / Gesture and mediatization. All sights were perceived as sounds : Pat Metheny and the instrumental image ; Jonathan de Souza / Jazz performance on screen : mediatization of gesture, bodily empathy, and the viewing experience ; Paul McIntyre / Playing the clown : Charles Mingus, Jimmy Knepper, and Jerry Maguire ; Krin Gabbard / Ontologies of media. Seeking resolution : John Coltrane, myth, and the audio-visual ; Tony Whyton / Screening the event : watching Miles Davis's My funny Valentine ; Nicholas Gebhardt / Play it again, Duke : jazz performance, improvisation, and the construction of spontaneity ; Björn Heile.