Jazz Christmas
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9m 17s
Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 9 mins | 2007
The decadent gathering of this early Kalman and Horn short does not take place on Christmas but rather New Year's Eve, 1927, nor does it feature any jazz proper—but it does have characters performing a riff on The Strokes’ “New York City Cops” and Billy Joel’s “Piano Man,” plus an appearance by a martini-sculling “F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
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