Shaping screen media. Framing jazz : thoughts on representation and embodiment / Peter Elsdon -- "All aboard!" : soundies and Vitaphone shorts / Emile Wennekes ; Assimilating and domesticating jazz in 1950s American variety television : Nat King Cole's transformation from guest star to national host / Kristin McGee -- "Jazz is where you find it" : encountering jazz on BBC television, 1946-66 / Jenny Doctor -- Gesture and mediatization. "All sights were perceived as sounds" : Pat Metheny and the instrumental image / Jonathan de Souza -- Jazz performance on screen : mediatization of gesture, bodily empathy, and the viewing experience / Paul McIntyre -- "Playing the clown" : Charles Mingus, Jimmy Knepper, and Jerry Maguire / Krin Gabbard -- Ontologies of media. Seeking resolution : John Coltrane, myth, and the audio-visual / Tony Whyton -- Screening the event : watching Miles Davis's "My funny Valentine" / Nicholas Gebhardt -- Play it again, Duke : jazz performance, improvisation, and the construction of spontaneity / Björn Heile