From Blues to Banjo

“In recognition of Black History Month, the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) is proud to highlight films from our collections that center Black communities, voices, and lived experiences”: From Blues to Banjo: Black Music in the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive.

First up: Time of the Horn (dir. Russell Merritt, 1964), a fantasia in which a boy finds a discarded trumpet and begins to blow. The playing is by Jonah Jones. The two unidentified Duke Ellington compositions heard in this short film are “Echoes of Harlem” and (appropriately enough) “Boy Meets Horn.”