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Black Wax
Winstar
Winstar
The poet, vocalist, and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron is both the descendant of the African griots and the forefather of rap. In the early '70s, he boldly proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," and in the '80s he warned us of the...
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Jazz - A Film by Ken Burns
Pbs Home Video
Pbs Home Video
Accompanied by a menagerie of products, Ken Burns's expansive 10-episode paean, Jazz , completes his trilogy on American culture, following The Civil War and Baseball . Spanning more than 19 hours, Jazz is, of course, about a lot more than...
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Wild Man Blues
New Line Home Video
New Line Home Video
In 1996, with his public image at a low ebb after a messy breakup with Mia Farrow, clarinetist and filmmaker Woody Allen set off on a tour of Europe with his New Orleans jazz band. Accompanying him were his sister, his soon-to-be wife Soon-Yi...
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The Mississippi - River of Song
Acorn Media
Acorn Media
Even casual jazz and blues fans know those seminal American styles journeyed north from New Orleans and the Deep South, along the Mississippi River. But that tributary's penetration into the nation's heartlands, and its passage through a much...
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The Miles Davis Story
Sony
Sony
Trumpeter-bandleader Miles Davis (1926-91) was a catalyst for the major innovations in post-bop, cool jazz, hard-bop, and jazz-fusion, and his wispy and emotional trumpet tones were some of the most evocative sounds ever heard. He was also one of...
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Calle 54
Walt Disney Video
Walt Disney Video
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...
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Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Winstar
Winstar
When a jazz musician plays a solo that lasts for a full 15 minutes, not one of which is less than inspired, powerful, and entertaining; and when he later, in the midst of an inventive and witty unaccompanied solo, exuberantly leaps from the...
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Ella Fitzgerald - Something to Live For
Winstar
Winstar
The neo-pop divas of the late 20th century may have turned up the glamour, and a few even introduced formidable technical prowess, epitomized by Mariah Carey's seemingly helium-induced falsetto (the bane of canine fans everywhere) or Celine Dion's...
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Jazz on a Summer's Day
New Yorker Video
New Yorker Video
Part concert documentary, part pop-cultural time capsule, Bert Stern's Jazz on a Summer's Day chronicles the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with an approach as deceptively relaxed, even impulsive, as the music itself. Still photographer Stern...
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