Cuban cinema classics. Volume 6, Jazz / series designed and directed by Ann Marie Stock.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Stock, Ann Marie, designer, director.

Chávez, Rebeca, film director.

Insausti, Esteban, film director.

Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica, film production company.

Series:

Cuban cinema classics ; vol. 6.

Cuban cinema classics ; vol. 6

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Pozo, Chano.

Salvador, Emiliano.

Insausti, Esteban--Interviews.

Insausti, Esteban.

Jazz--Cuba.

Jazz.

Jazz musicians--Cuba.

Jazz musicians.

Cuba.

Genre:

Biographical films.

Documentary films.

Interviews.

Short films.

Short films -- Cuba.

Documentary films -- Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Williamsburg, Va.] : A.M. Stock : [Distributed by] Cuban Cinema Classics, ©2005.

Language Note:

Films in Spanish with English subtitles. Disc label and container inserts in English only.

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

Summary:

Contains two short films from Cuba's national film institute, ICAIC. Searching for Chano Pozo by Rebeca Chávez includes testimony from family, friends, and fellow musicians to piece together the life and premature death of jazz drummer Chano Pozo while highlighting his unique contribution to modern jazz rhythms. The hands and the angel by Esteban Insausti shows one of the world's greatest jazz musicians, Emiliano Salvador, and his place in Cuban music history.

Contents:

Buscando a Chano Pozo = Searching for Chano Pozo / director, Rebeca Chávez (1987, 27 min.)

Las manos y el ángel : tributo a Emiliano Salvador = The hands and the angel : a tribute to Emiliano Salvador / director, Esteban Insausti (2002, 27 min.).

Notes:

Title from disc menu.

DVD release of Cuban documentary films originally produced by ICAIC.

Special features include biographies and filmographies of Rebeca Chávez and Esteban Insausti and an interview with Esteban Insausti.

Contains:

Buscando a Chano Pozo.

Searching for Chano Pozo.

Manos y el angel.

Hands and the angel.

OCLC:

60772558