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Ken
Burns Jazz Spanning more than 19 hours,
Jazz is, of course, about a lot more than what many have called
America's classical music--especially in episodes 1 through 7.
It's here that Burns unearths precious visual images of jazz musicians
and hangs historical narratives around the music with convincing
authority. Time can stand still as images float past to the sound
of grainy vintage jazz, and the drama of a phonograph needle being
placed on Louis Armstrong's celestial "West End Blues"
is nearly sublime. |
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Diana
Krall/Live In Paris Recorded live at the Paris
Olympia on December 1, 2001, Krall's classic style blends equal
parts artistic vision, hard work and determination. The British
Columbia native began playing piano at the age of four and now has
five stunning albums behind her. She made her debut with the critically
acclaimed Only Trust Your Heart and the album topped the Billboard
jazz charts for the most of 1998, earning Krall a Grammy nomination.
She went on to win a Best Jazz Vocal Performance Grammy for 1999's
platinum-selling When I Look in Your Eyes and became the first jazz
artist in 25 years to be nominated in the Album of the Year category.
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Chet
Baker/Live At Ronnie Scott's Chet Baker's performance
here is both fragile and passionate. Baker is joined by Van Morrison
and reunited with Elvis Costello, with whom he recorded Shipbuilding
at Ronnie Scott's intimate English club. In interviews with Costello,
the pain and happiness hidden between his wrinkled, tired face pour
out like so many notes. Chet recalls winning a spot with Charlie
Parker's band at the tender age of 22, but humbles himself by confessing
to a lifelong addiction to drugs. |
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George
Benson/Absolutely Live One of music's
most magnetic performers, George Benson shines in this live performance.
Recorded at Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Ireland, this performance
highlights the versatility of George Benson. With guest appearances
by jazz legend Joe Sample, the BBC Big Band, and musicians from
the Ulster Orchestra, George delights his fans with his straight-ahead
jazz hits, contemporary R&B classics, and fresh interpretations
of elegant and timeless standards. |
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Dizzy
Gillespie/Dizzy's Dream Band This film,
recorded in 1982 at Lincoln Center, captures legendary jazz trumpeter
Dizzy Gillespie performing with his Dream Band, consisting of a
wide array of jazz music's finest musicians, many of whom worked
with Gillespie during the evolutionary era of the early-'40s bebop
period. It includes an all-star cast highlighted by pyrotechnic
drum wizard Max Roach, Gillespie's protégé trumpeter
Jon Faddis, and Modern Jazz Quartet cofounders John Lewis (piano)
and Milt Jackson (vibraphone). |
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Various
Artists/Calle 54 In Calle 54,
Madrid-based filmmaker Fernando Trueba explores the wide and wonderful
world of Latin jazz: a hybrid genre that fuses the clave, samba,
flamenco, merengue, and other rhythms from Africa, the Iberian
peninsula, and the Americas. The film's Spanish title takes its
name from Sony Music Studios located on 54th Street in Manhattan,
where a who's who of musicians were filmed and recorded. They
range from Brazilian bombshell keyboardist Eliane Elias and enigmatic
Argentine tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, to the fiery rumba
group Puntilla y Nueva Generacion. |
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Buddy
Rich/Lost West Side Story Tapes Superior
production values, great playing, and a host of bonus features combine
to make this arguably the best available audiovisual representation
of the late Buddy Rich and his music. Recorded in 1985 in San Francisco,
the hourlong concert by Rich and his 15-piece big band was thought
to have been lost in a fire. The master tapes were "rediscovered"
in 2000, leading to the meticulous preparation (a full 14 text pages
are devoted to technical details) of this
DVD release. |
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John
Coltrane/The World According to John Coltrane John
Coltrane was the most innovative and influential jazz saxophonist
of the 1960s. The World According to John Coltrane shows he was
that, and more--much more. The World According to John Coltrane
traces John Coltrane's musical growth from his roots in the black
church and rhythm and blues through his forty years of life and
beyond, culminating in a musical meeting between Art Ensemble of
Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and dervish musicians in Morocco's
Western Sahara desert filmed in 1990. |
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DeJohnnette,
Hancock, Holland, and Methaney/Live In Concert 1990
DeJohnette, Hancock, Holland, Metheny in Concert
is a feature-length (98 minutes) release edited from two concerts
given by the jazz superstar lineup of Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock,
Dave Holland, and Pat Metheny at the Mellon Jazz Festival held in
the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on June 23, 1990. This was
part of an outstanding world tour following drummer DeJohnette's
Parallel Realities album, though this program and the original album
have only two cuts in common, "Indigo Dreamscapes" and
"Nine over Reggae." |
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Erroll
Garner/In Performance Rare performances circa
1964 from BBC TV by renowned pianist and composer of "Misty,"
Erroll Garner, digitally remastered and available for the first
time on video in North America. Includes one-of-a-kind improvised
performances of classic standards and originals. Features Erroll
Garner on piano with his able accompanists Kelly Martin on drums
and Eddie Calhoun on bass. Also includes a rare bonus audio track
of "Misty" and an Erroll Garner photo gallery. 72 minutes. |
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