Arena - Joy

BBC Arena presents Duke Ellington and other Jazz starts in a 1944 'soundie' as part of their 1983 film Jazz Jukebox

Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand.

A Clip taken from the 1990 BBC film Arena Rhythms of The World: Ewan McColl introducing the folk singer and showing rare footage of him singing folk songs with his Mother, Son and wife Peggy Seeger.

Extract from the Rhythms of The World programme The Rolling Stones in Morocco which shows The Stones as they meet Moroccan musicians and make recordings of traditional piping and drumming for their track Continental Drift.

Cruz performs her signature tune Bemba Colora at a gig filmed for the 1988 BBC Arena My Name is Celia Cruz

Ibrahim is filmed in 1987 describing how the iconic track Manenberg came into being and performing it live. Taken from the BBC Arena film A Brother with Perfect Timing

Dave Brubecks track backs images of Jackson Pollock making a painting. Extracted from BBC Arena's 2009 film Cool

Pavarotti sings with his father in Modena Cathedral in 1979. Taken from the 2004 BBC Arena documentary Pavarotti The Last Tenor.

The Mahotella Queens stun a 1989 Johannesburg audience with their pumping track Hush and Listen and an eye-bogglingly fantastic dance routine. Taken from the BBC Arena Rhythms of The World: The Indestructable Beat of Soweto

Max Roach plays the drums for BBC Arena's Tony Bennett's New York and we hear him interviewed about the early days of being a Jazz star in the 1940's.

Jimenez performs in a spring garden and talks about learning to play the achordian by watching his father. Filmed for BBC Arena's 1985 film The Achordian Strikes Back

Jerry Allison, Drummer from Holly's first band The Crickets demonstrates the beat used in hit song Peggy Sue, which we see Holly performing in a clip from BBC Arena's film Buddy Holly (1985).

Jorge Ben performs his most iconic track in London in 1993. Filmed for BBC Arena's Rhythms of The World: Jorge Ben in Performance.

Johnathan King describes working with Joe Meek and his inventive approach to recordning sound. Taken from BBC Arenas The Strange Story of Joe Meek (1991).

Slim Gaillard interviews Lionel Hampton on his sound and we see a clips of the jazz star playing Vibe Boogie. Taken from the BBC Arena Rhythms of The World: Slim's Jazz (1991)

From the 1979 Arena film Tell Us The Truth charting the music and motives behind punk group Sham 69, the band perform signature tune, Hurry Up Harry.

John Peel is filmed at a Nightingales gig for the 1981 Arena film Today Carshalton Beeches, Tomorrow Croydon. The band talk about their history and we see them perform

Filmed for BBC Arena's Today Carshalton Beeches, Tomorrow Croydon we see John Peel in 1981 going through the tapes sent to his Radio 1 studio in the wake of the punk revolution

Excerpted from Arena: Cool (2009) this clip of Dizzy Gillespie the great 'Jazz Ambassador' features exsquisit film footage of Dizzy playing Tin Tin Deo intercut with archive footage from around the troubled world of the 1960s.

Humphrey Lyttelton talks about the recording of Bad Penny Blues at Landsdowne Studios.

Excerpted from Arena: Brenda Fassie (1993) this clip shows Brenda performing in Capetown.

The 'Peggy Sue' who inspired Buddy Holly's song of that name describes growing up in Lubbock Texas and we see Buddy Holly and The Crickets play.

Little Richard waxes lyrical about the electric atmosphere at The Apollo Theatre and modestly describes himself as a very hard act to follow. From the 1985 Arena documentary The Apollo Story (Part Two)

The infamous bad-boy rockstar on leave from the Priory bigs up his rehab centre, the UK Probabtion Service and Metropolitan Police before performing 'Gin and Teacups' at a festival. Filmed by Ashtar Alkhirsan and a highlight of her brilliant and troubling portrait film Arena: Pete Doherty.