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1) Satchmo
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Medici Arts
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A revealing look at an enigmatic yet endlessly appealing man, who soared to the heights of creative freedom but couldn't beat a lifelong addiction to heroin. Includes Parker's only surviving TV appearance playing Hot house.
Series
Publisher
Medici Arts
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Most presentations feature Lady Day as the sad victim of hard times and drugs. Mining a treasure trove of new information, the producers set the record straight - and beautifully. In a voice that is Billie-like in its rasping wiseness and its ring, stage and screen star Ruby Dee reads from Holiday's autobiography, Lady sings the blues.
Series
Publisher
Medici Arts
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This program profiles, with first-hand observation and historical detail, the pivotal people and places in American jazz. Includes archive footage of performances by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and many other important artists.
Series
Publisher
Medici Arts
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the musician and composer, Thelonious Monk, including clips of international performances and interviews with artists and producers.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features rare and memorable film performances of the greatest performers like Bessie Smith, Son House, Jimmy Rushing, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, and B.B. King. Follows the music's many tributaries as blues flows into the sophisticated jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, the rhythm and blues of Louis Jordan and Dinah Washington, and the rock 'n' roll of Chuck Berry and...
Series
Publisher
EuroArts Music International GmbH
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Interviews with jazz musicians commenting upon the impact which John Coltrane, an innovative jazz saxophonist, had upon American jazz music. Film traces Coltrane's musical growth from his roots in the black church and in rhythm & blues, through his forty years of life. Film culminates in a musical meeting between the saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and dervish musicians in Morocco.
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