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CREDITS — WILLIE THE LION

Writer/Producer/Director
MARC FIELDS

Interviewees
JEAN BACH
AMIRI BARAKA
DICK HYMAN
BROOKS KERR
MIKE LIPSKIN
ARTIE SHAW
DR. BILLY TAYLOR

Narrator
JOE MORTON

Voice of James P. Johnson
WES HALL

Co-Producer and On-line Editor
BOB HERMAN

Chief Consultant
MIKE LIPSKIN

Graphic Design
CHARLIE STARKEY

Production Coordinator
LAURA NOVIA

Facilities Coordinator
MARY KATE MALONEY

Camera
MIKE BUDD
JOE CONLON
PAUL HORVATH

Sound
MIKE BARNHART
JOE CONLON
SCOTT NEALL
JEFF REISLY

Production Assistants
JEN GROOM
CHRISTOPHER BENINCASA

Archival footage and stills provided by:
Historic Films
Producers Library Service
Jazz on Film
Charles Peterson
Celluloid Improvisations
Bob DeFlores Films
Archive Films
BBC Films
Schomburg Library/NYPL
Library of Congress
Mike Lipskin
Brooks Kerr

"Pork and Beans" by Charles Luckeyeth Roberts
Performed by Mike Lipskin

"Finger Buster" by Willie the Lion Smith
Performed by Dick Hyman

Special Thanks:
Dan Morgenstern, Institute of Jazz Studies
Michael Chertok
Hoagy Carmichael, Jr.
The Blue Note
Mark Kantor
Bob DeFlores
Bill Reed
Howard Green
Don McGlynn
Barnaby Conrad
Judy Vale
Concord Academy
Tim Wojcik

Website Design
FRED EHMANN

Executive Producer NILA ARONOW

c 2001 NJN Public Television

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