The Greatest Jazz Films Ever (2 Disc)(jazz)(avi)[rogercc][h33t]

The Greatest Jazz Films Ever
DVD Released:2003
Format:avi



A compilation of some of the finest documentary footage of jazz greats, this collection features Life photographer Gjon Mili's Oscar-winning short "Jammin' the Blues," documenting a 1944 jam session that took place in Hollywood, with Lester Young, Harry Edison, Illinois Jacquet, Barney Kessel, and Jo Jones participating. Also featured is Mili's follow-up, which was previously only unavailable as a Japanese DVD entitled "Improvisation." It features footage of Charlie Parker miming to a recorded track of Coleman Hawkins, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich playing. The Bird's only TV appearance, where he plays with Dizzy Gillespie, is included, as well as a 1959 TV program featuring the Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and the Gil Evans Orchestra. Clips from the Sound Of Jazz series offer performances by the Count Basie All-Star Orchestra, Red Allen All-Stars, the Thelonious Monk Trio, Billie Holiday with Mal Waldron and the Count Basie All-Star Orchestra, the Jimmy Giuffre Three, Pee Wee Russell with the Jimmy Giuffre Quintet, the Ahmad Jamal Trio, and the Ben Webster Sextet.

Disc 1:



Jammin' the Blues: A classic studio short film documenting a jam session with some of the finest instrumentalists in jazz: Lester Young, Harry Edison, Illinois Jacquet, Sid Catlett, Barney Kessel, Jo Jones and others.

1. Midnight Symphony
2. On the Sunny Side of the Street
3. Jammin' the Blues

Be Bop’s Nest: The only Charlie Parker television appearance on the Stage Entrance show with Dizzy Gillespie and others.

4. Hot House

Jazz at The Philharmonic: A great studio short film offering five treasury clips featuring Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Harry Edison, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Buddy Rich, Ella Fitzgerald, and others.

5. Ballade
6. Celibrity
7. Ad Lib
8. Pennies from Heaven
9. Blues for Greasy

The Sound of Miles Davis (Complete Edition): The exemplary television program featuring the Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, plus the Gil Evans Orchestra.

10. So What
11. Duke
12. Blues for Pablo
13. New Rhumba

Disc 2:




The Sound of Jazz (Complete Edition): One of the great glorious moments on television containing memorable sequences with Billie Holiday, Lester Young, the Thelonious Monk Trio, Henry “Red” Allen and his All Stars, Count Basie Orchestra, and the Jimmy Giuffre Trio with Jim Hall and Pee Wee Russell as a special guest.

1. Open All Night/Blues
2. Count Blues
3. Wild Man Blues
4. Rosetta
5. Dickie's Dream
6. Blue Monk
7. I Left My Baby
8. Fine & Mellow
9. Train & the River
10. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me

Jazz from Studio 61: With the original Ahmad Jamal Trio and the Ben Webster Quintet accompanied by Buck Clayton, Hank Jones, Vic Dickenson, George Duvivier and Jo Jones.

11. Darn That Dream
12. Аhmad's Blues
13. Chelsea Bridge
14. Duke's Place