Jazz Documentaries and Videos

[deepak]

I hope to be adding more to the list. I will be uploading a few I grabbed off KG to Youtube (inc one of Sonny Rollins)

Blue Note Records doc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrHldDh74dI

Documentary on Cecil Taylor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sfiN9tvcbM

[blessingx]

Let's Get Lost, the Bruce Weber Chet Backer doc is on YouTube. Ratio is bit off, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUdGjrIZVH4

Also... Art Tatum - The Art Of Jazz Piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUOp1W2aqiw

Edited April 24, 2012 by blessingx

[Tari]

Series of interviews interspersed with performances by both Andre Previn and Oscar.

The Universal Mind of Bill Evans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsnh21ae6YI

[deepak]

Wow Youtube wants my cell phone number to upload videos longer than 15 minutes, umm no

Guess I have a lot of splitting ahead of me.

[deepak]

Nice piece on Japanese avant-garde jazz musician Masabumi Kikuchi

[Mellifluous Crunk]

Ken Burns' "Jazz" TV miniseries is on Netflix in its entirety. It has its flaws, especially in its rushed and misguided portrayal of jazz after 1960, but if you can get over the obvious Crouch/Marsalis school bias there's a lot of interesting biographical information, beautiful music, and good photography on display. Good way to teach newbies about early jazz history and bring them closer to an understanding of why exactly the greats are revered..

[blessingx]

^ True dat. Been watching on and off this last two weeks and its bothering me much less than when first broadcast. As you said a lot of good info there.

[Mellifluous Crunk]

On that note, here's a video of Mtume ripping Crouch a new asshole over his brand of revisionism.

 

 

It's amazing how the traditionalist camp manages to find logic in calling Miles a sellout for going electric while complaining about fusion/free music for not being danceable/capable of finding a widespread audience.

[blessingx]

New doc coming on Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read