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This exemplary documentary about seminal jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk reaps the benefits of multiple blessings, including the skilled editorial hand of director Charlotte Zwerin and the patronage of executive producer (and erstwhile jazz pianist) Clint Eastwood. Most vital is the use...

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 sidesteps more formal documentary conventions such as narrati...

Benny Goodman - Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing...

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 ...

Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti is mostly exquisite on this concert DVD, which gives old fans and new arrivals a chance to hear him apply his rich, expressive playing to a number of old standards, as well as one or two of his own compositions. Botti, along with a remarkable band including Billy Childs on...

This DVD features the whole July 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival concert, plus a bonus 7 songs from the 1998 concert. Track Listing: 1. Rock That, 2. Jupiter, 3. Saturday Nite, 4. Revolution, 5. Gratitude, 6. September, 7. Let's Groove, 8. Rockit, 9. Sun Goddess, 10. Can't Hide Love, 11. That's The Way...

This is the first ever all new Michel Petrucciani DVD featuring two entire feature programs: Non Stop Travels With Michel Petrucciani a brilliant documentary on this most unique musician and also Trio Live In Stuttgart.Format: DVD AUDIO Genre: MUSIC DVD/DOCUMENTARY UPC: 764911690957 Manufacturer N...

At the Jazz Band Ball features rare, archival film clips from 1925 to 1933 that showcase a wonderful potpourri of musicians, bandleaders, singers, dancers, and entertainers that characterized the best of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age. The range of this collection represents early 20th-...

This DVD is the most comprehensive volume on the topic ever produced. Living legends Billy Hart Eddie Locke Joe Morello Charli Persip and Ben Riley along with modern masters Adam Nussbaum and Steve Smith demonstrate and discuss their distinctive drumming styles then all perform the same set and cont...