Story Of Jazz : Masters of American Music / Matthew Seig, director.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Seig, Matthew, film director.

Fitzgerald, Ella, performer.

Monk, Thelonious, performer.

Basie, Count, performer.

Vaughan, Sarah, performer.

Parker, Charlie, performer.

Ellington, C. D., performer.

Holiday, Billie, performer.

Davis, Miles, performer.

Armstrong, Louis, performer.

Charles, Ray, performer.

Coleman, Ornette, performer.

Gillespie, Dizzy, performer.

Oliver, King, performer.

Coltrane, John, performer.

Multiprises, LLC.

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 38 min., 53 sec.)) : sound, color.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Multiprises, LLC, 1993.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

The Story of Jazz puts the crown on the brilliant, highly acclaimed Masters of Jazz Series, which has profiled some of the music’s pivotal figures: John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. The Story of Jazz places these important artists into historical context, allowing us to see them in the proper perspective. Jazz has been called America’s greatest contribution to the arts, and it has existed in a recognizable form for close to one hundred years, but jazz has a much longer history. The Story of Jazz is a colorful tale of cross-cultural influences that produced a constantly evolving, enduring music. It is a rich 90-minute weave of sounds, rare film clips, stills and interviews that places the history of jazz into proper perspective. Through this absorbing mix of sights and sounds, we trace the music’s diverse ingredients, see how the mix was formed, and how this truly American expression spread to become a universal language. Of course, The Story of Jazz is also a captivating trek through the stylistic changes that have kept jazz so fresh for all these years: New Orleans traditions, Stride, Swing, Boogie Woogie, Big Band, Jump Band, the singers, the dancers, the blues, Bebop, Afro-Cuban, Cool, Free-form… it’s all here. It also adds to the list such equally vital innovators as King Oliver, Coleman Hawkins, Ornette Coleman, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. This is not your commonly told jazz history; it does not begin in pre-World War I New Orleans and simply move up the river to the land of Swing and Bop—it takes us back to the 1830s and square one: Congo Square, that small plaza in New Orleans where slaves performed the wondrous, rhythmic sounds of Africa. We learn how these sounds profoundly affected a young boy and began a succession of influences that are felt to this day. The Story of Jazz combines an authoritative narrative with the personal first-hand observations of dozens of great jazz artists—Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, Buck Clayton, Illinois Jacquet, Tony Bennett, Lester Bowie, Zilner Randolph, Bud Freeman, Randy Weston, Carmen McRae, Billy Taylor, Jay McShann, Roy Haynes, and Wynton Marsalis among others. Never before have the filmed comments of so many important jazz artists been assembled for one project, and never before has the history of jazz been told as vividly and with such attention to historic detail. “The Story of Jazz” is as entertaining as it is informative, a seamless array of performances, comments, and compelling historic insight. Writer: Chris Albertson Program: © Multiprises, LLC .

Contents:

Interlude/Medley incl. It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) / Ella Fitzgerald

Blue Monk / Thelonious Monk

Dickie's Dream / Count Basie

The Banjo, Opus 15 / Gottachalk

Maple Leaf Rag / Scott Joplin

Salty dog / Papa Charlie Jackson

Tiger Rag/Now You Around The Corner / Louis Armstrong

West End Blues / King Oliver

Black Bottom Stomp / Jelly Roll Morton

Satanic Blues / The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Shake That Jelly Roll / Junie C Cobb

Froggie More / King Oliver

Riverboat Shuffle / Hoagy Carmichael

Dinah / Harry Akst

Weather Bird Rag / Louis Armstrong

Variety Stomp / Abel Green

The Mule Walk / James P. Johnson

Carolina Shout / James P. Johnson

Old Man Blues / Duke Ellington

Jubilee Stomp / Duke Ellington

Mood Indigo / Irving Mills

Sophisticated Lady / Duke Ellington

Moten Swing / Benny Moten

Prince of Wails / Benny Moten

One O'Clock Jump / Count Basie

On The Sunny Side Of The Street / Jimmy McHugh

Air Mail Special / Benny Goodman

Boogie Woogie Dream / Albert Ammons

Mess-A-Stomp / Andy Kirk

Sing,Sing,Sing / Louis Prima

Doggin' Around / Count Basie

Class In Swing / Artie Shaw

Nagasaki / Jimmie Lunceford

The "C" Jam Blues / Duke Ellington

Fine and Mellow / Billie Holiday

Downhearted Blues / Lovie Austin

How Hight the Moon / Morgan Lewis

Tiny's Tempo / Art Tatum trio

Rhythm Riff / Thelonious Monk

(I Love The) Rhythm In A Riff / Jerry Valentine

52nd Street Theme / Thelonious Monk

Ko-Ko / Charlie Parker

Salt Peanuts / Dizzy Gillespie

Hot House / Tadd Dameron

Bud Powell / Chick Corea

'Round Midnight / Thelonious Monk

Evidence / Thelonious Monk

Cherokee / Ray Noble

Cubana Bop / Dizzy Gillespie

Blues for Pablo / Miles Davis

So What / Miles Davis

Impressions / John Coltrane

First take / Ornette Coleman

Meditations on Integration / Charles Mingus

My Favorite Things / John Coltrane

Bitches Brew / Miles Davis

The Governor / Marcus Roberts

All Blues / Miles Davis.

Participant:

Ella Fitzgerald ; Thelonious Monk ; Count Basie ; Sarah Vaughan ; Charlie Parker ; Duke Ellington ; Billie Holiday ; Miles Davis ; Louis Armstrong ; Ray Charles ; Ornette Coleman ; Dizzy Gillespie ; King Oliver ; John Coltrane.

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OCLC:

1390750924

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