Jazz Masters: Vintage Collection - 1958-1961
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DVD: Region Code 2Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Classics UK
Movie Reviews of Jazz Masters: Vintage Collection - 1958-1961
Movie Review: Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Whether it is Count Basie's orchestra, augmented by some illustrious guests (Coleman Hawkins, Gerry Mulligan...) or Billie Holiday in a beautiful jam session featuring Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Hawkins, Webster and other giants, this DVD is essential for all jazz fans.
More traditionally inclined listeners can enjoy remarkable Henry "Red" Allen's All Stars which include not only Rex Stewart but also Pee Wee Russell (a footnote: both Allen and Russell are to inovative, original and idiosyncratic to be merely called dixielanders).
For the modernists, check out extended and elaborate performances by Miles Davis from the era he was on the cutting edge of developments in jazz (first he plays with Coltrane and then with Gil Evans' "big band"), but equally intriguing are the contributions by Ahmad Jamal and Thelonious Monk.
My interest in jazz spans all of the above; it is only Jimmy Giuffre contribution I don't like on this DVD.
Since these are classic performances by artists such as Jimmy Rushing (singing with Basie's All Stars Big Band, Monk, Davis or Webster and since these lovely notes produced by Holiday and Prez can be considered their swan song, this DVD should be bought by all jazz fans without hesitation.
Television is notorious for lowering the IQ of viewers but this comes somewhere from outer space...
Oh; did I mention that great drummer Jo Jones gives soul and spirit to many of the performances?
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