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Featuring the voices of THE EXCITING SCORE! SAMMY DAVIS, JR. THE RIT SONGS! Man Called Adam LOUIS ARMSTRONG and MEL TORME

The Musical Stars of “A Man Called Adam” are many. First of all, there’s To encompass all of this first flight musical talent, the producers of ‘“‘A Sammy Davis, Jr. One of the most frenetic entertainers around. He takes the Man Called Adam” turned to one of the most revered jazz musicians in the role of a rebellious, glaring, angry man named Adam Johnson. A world. Benny Carter .is widely known as an instrumentalist in his own right, man who doesn’t just play the blues . . . he lives them. Sammy sings, and but Carter has had wide experience both in motion pictures and television. Sammy acts, and Sammy brings to one of the most memorable screen He brings to this score a spark, an imagination, and an understanding that portraits of his career. One of the few skills that Davis does not have is the in lesser hands would-have made ‘‘A Man Called Adam” less than the True. trumpet; thus, the music sound track for him was dubbed by Nat Adderly, With a shooting schedule of six weeks, “‘A Man Called Adam” began pro- one of the country’s leading jazzmen. duction at the Gorham Hotel in Manhattan. Penthouse ‘‘A”’ of the hotel was Standing along side. Davis is veteran trumpet man Louis Armstrong, who used as the apartment of Nelson Davis (Ossie Davis), a close friend of Adam. plays the role of Willie “Sweet Daddy’”’ Ferguson, a famed but aged and From there, the production crew moved to Small’s Paradise, the famed Har- out-of-fashion trumpet player. Armstrong brings. his immense vitality to this lem nightclub presently owned by Wilt Chamberlain, the basketball player. role, as well as his own golden trumpet, inimitable voice, and jazz group Every effort was made to create a picture that was in every sense real. (, , Bill Bailey, John Benjamin Brown, and Jonathan This care has also gone into the musical score for the film. More than most Jones). sound track albums, ‘‘A Man Called Adam” says something on record as well Vocalist Mel Torme adds the anthem of the film (‘‘All That Jazz’’) to this as on film. It is a memorable album, filled with vitality, portraying the vital film, singing it twice for the soundtrack. One of the most respected of the hip world. of a jazz musician who lives his music, makes love to it, says his whole vocalists in the world, Torme was a natural selection for this role ... he plays life through his music. himself.

Art Direction: Ed Fhrasher

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