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Everything Everywhere.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Icons Among Us ; Episode 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- Americans.
- African Americans.
- Jazz music.
- Cultural identity.
- Performing arts life.
- Burns, Ken,.
- Local Subjects:
- South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- Americans.
- African Americans.
- Jazz music.
- Cultural identity.
- Performing arts life.
- Burns, Ken,.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- In the Icons Among Us final chapter, Everything Everywhere, the directors tell the stories of how jazz has become a music of the world, from the tale of New Orleans native saxophonist and Mardi Gras Indian chief Donald Harrison to pianist Robert Glasper’s assertion that jazz came from the blues and church and should honor that. But the film also views European artists, who take classical and folk music in their special mix of jazz, spotlighting Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma. There’s also talk about how Europe is far more open to experimentation given its distance from the jazz birthplace. Then there’s the embrace of jazz from Latin America, from Miguel Zenon to Dafnis Prieto. Indeed, jazz is a world citizen, whose influence has brought creative freedom to all parts of the world. In the U.S., jazz schools have proliferated, leading Herbie Hancock to marvel, “Stuff is happening.” Key segments come from trumpeter Terence Blanchard who surveyed post-Hurricane Katrina’s influence on New Orleans, young-then trumpeter Roy Hargrove playing a Seattle club. The film shows how there’s a vibrant jazz mix all over the world. The series as a whole is prime as real jazz education, far surpassing the Ken Burns view of dead jazz. The upstarts of the 2000-2009 aught, have become the true leaders of the future. Dan Ouellette
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).
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