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Low light and blue smoke: Big Bill blues

Belgium, 1957
film

Afro-American blues singer Big Bill Broonzy performing in a Brussels nightclub. An imaginative photographic treatment.

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Cigarette blues

United States, 1985
Similarity: 69%

Chicago blues

United States, 1970
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Sonny Terry: shoutin' the blues

United States, 1979
Similarity: 67%

All that jazz starring Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen

United Kingdom, 1979
Similarity: 65%

Machine gun blues = Black rose of Harlem

United States, 1995
Similarity: 65%

A Bill of Divorcement cinema slide

United States, 1932
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Le bleu perdu

Canada, 1972
Similarity: 65%

Red, white and blues = Red, white & blues

United States, 2003
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The Blue lamp

United Kingdom, 1950
Similarity: 64%

Bluegrass country

United States, 1974
Similarity: 64%

Beyond the blue meanies: the animation of Paul Driessen

Canada, 1999
Similarity: 64%

Sonata in Brussels

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Similarity: 64%

Warming by the devil's fire

United States, 2003
Similarity: 64%

Night light

Australia, 2006
Similarity: 64%

The Travelling tune: a musical phantasy in paper

Netherlands, 1962
Similarity: 64%

Le Ciel Est Bleu = the Sky Is Blue

France, 1970
Similarity: 64%

Rembetika: The Blues of Greece

Australia, 1982
Similarity: 64%

Cocaine blues

United States, 1983
Similarity: 63%
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