| | |  | Big Dance Bands | Home » » » Jazz Giants of the 20th Century | | | | | | | Description: | | Here are some of the greatest jazz artists of the 20th century, alone and together, in 17 rare, vintage performances. Many of these numbers were performed live on TV in the '60s and '70s and have never been available before. As a special bonus, there's All This Jazz, a fascination overview featuring commentary from jazz greats Red Holloway, Ernie Watts and Gerald Wilson. Featured artists include Buddy Rich, Cab Callaway, Chick Corea, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Earl ''Fatha'' Hines, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz and more. | | | Features: | |
• Louis Armstrong said its best: If you have to ask what Jazz is, you ll never know. Here are some of the greatest jazz artists of the 20th century, alone and together, in 17 rare, vintage performances. Many of these numbers were performed live on TV in the 60s and 70s and have never been available before. As a special bonus, there s All This Jazz, a fascinating overview featuring commentary from
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Passport | | Run Time:
| 70 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| January 16, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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Great Jazz Lineup!Jan 29, 2007
By Steves
This is a really cool assemblage of jazz artists. I've seen some of the early stuff before, but the color performances from Herbie Mann, Grover Washington and Lional Hampton were great, and I liked the bonus jazz discussion by those older musicians. Definitely worth the money.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
No production values; 50% good music, so not a complete misnomerAug 28, 2010
By Samuel Chell
Understandably, this disc will scarcely rate 2 stars with most viewers. No arguments from me. But there are reasons to like it:
1. Charlie Parker, the inarguable master among all improvisers in this American art form, left a single (just one) film clip behind him (a several-minute television tape of Bird joining Dizzy Gillespie on "Hot House"). It's not included in this collection, but the point is that the public's, let alone the sponsors', traditional aversion to jazz (especially instrumental jazz) assures that, visually, there's little to no footage of the seminal giants available anywhere, so be grateful for what you can get.
2. Although much of the video will be of interest only to fans of "smooth jazz" (Herbie Mann, Grover Washington), there's enough solid musical material to compensate.
Highlights include:
1. Dizzy Gillespie fronting his 1948 "pure" bebop band for two entire numbers.
2. Earl Fatha Hines and Louis as well as Herbie Hancock and Chic Corea (on the Mike Douglas Show). Though filmed in 1979, 6 years after Chic's/Burton's "Crystal Silence," Herbie appears to be no more than 18. (At 60 he looked like a 35-year-old; at 70, the disparity has narrowed considerably).
3. A Nat King Cole television show featuring Nat with: A. Oscar Peterson and the contrasting approaches of Stan Getz and Coleman Hawkins; B. Nat's tribute to Nelson Riddle, including the filming of a complete orchestral arrangement conducted by Riddle as well as Nat's calling attention to and even naming each of Nelson's 4 copyists!
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