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GrindsMan presents:

Masters of American Music-Story of Jazz.(2009)-GrinDsMaN

type. music
formaat. DVD5
bron. DVD5
taal. engels
ondertitels. duits/frans 
duur. 100 min min


"The Story of Jazz" tells the colorful tale of cross-cultural influences that
produced the constantly evolving, enduring music in a 100 minute mix of sounds,
rare film clips, stills, and interviews that places the history of jazz into
proper perspective.

It's a captivating trek through the stylistic changes that have kept jazz so
fresh for all these years with New Orleans traditions to the blues to cool,
free-form encapsulated by the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy
Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis. -- The Delaware County Daily Times,
Michael Christopher, December 18, 2009

Naxos is rather well known for its superior taste and presentations, and this
introductory DVD is a rounded warm-up to a series of individualized releases
which go far to humanize the personalities behind the jazz myths, exaggerations,
lies, and cult of personality distortions both positive and negative. Underneath
it all, we find consummate creatives, human beings who worked their rear ends
off to uplevel the culture alongside the entire concept of music, especially
Western art music. The Masters of American Music aired on TV and sold as VHS
commodities during the 80s and 90s, quite well received; now there's new media
format, DVD, so they're finally undergoing a richly deserved reissuance.

The Story of Jazz gives us just that, a panorama of the mode since its New
Orleans inception right up to 50s and 60s free jazz and modern manifestations,
compressing all into a fast-moving and engrossing 98 minutes zeroing in on
historic authenticity. Along the way and all through the series, 80 prominent
figures were interviewed--Dizzy, Brubeck, Lester Bowie, Tony Bennett, and a
universe of others--giving intimate windows onto the daily nuts and bolts
beneath historic chronologies. Then there are performance clips from Miles, the
Duke, the Count, Mingus, and many giants of the genre.

Of striking importance is panoply of footage from the times: club gigs, street
scenes, and such that are rarely available otherwise. These glimpses into the
everyday afford a great deal of empathy for the degree of achievement connoted
and denoted in the rise of jazz among a people too often treated as tenth-class
citizens in their own country. Lester Bowie and Wynton Marsalis, ever the
scholars, serve here alongside the greats of the time (Carmen MacRae, Jay
McShann, Randy Weston, and, well, just an overwhelmingly stellar array),
commenting and guiding the listener through subtleties and overviews.

The tone of the entire parade of swingin', boppin', bluesin', jazzin' interludes
is warm and intimate. You feel a part of it, as though there, watching Billie
Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Billy Eckstine on stage. The pace is headily
breathtaking, the stock footage dazzling, and the editing brisk and vivacious,
making for a viewing experience pulling the audience right into the dance and
concert halls. Ken Burns may have devoted 382-1/2 hours to his more
comprehensive series, but this is the *ne plus ultra* of the short take, a
gourmet compression of greatness in one sitting. Don't be surprised, though, if
it only sharpens up your appetite for more -- in which case, repair to the
reviews of the simultaneously reissued documentaries on Thelonius Monk, Billy
Holiday, and Charlie Parker. Bon appetit! 


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Jazz-DVD-NTSC/dp/B002Q1LKA0


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