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Jazz Icons: Series 1 Box Set (9 DVDs)
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Jazz Icons: Series 1 Box Set (9 DVDs)
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by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie
Price:$159.99
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers * Live in '58 Dizzy Gillespie * Live in '58 & '70 Louis Armstrong * Live in '59 Quincy Jones * Live in '60 Thelonious Monk * Live in '66 Buddy Rich * Live in '78 Ella Fitzgerald * Live in '57 & '63 Count Basie * Live in '62 Chet Baker * Live in '64 & '79 We'll let others speak for us: "The release of Jazz Icons(tm) is like the unearthing of a musical time capsule--an audio-visual treasure trove of the music that changed the world. From Big Band and Bebop to Dixieland and Cool, it's all here and it all swings. These jazz legends, from Dizzy and Count to Louis and Ella, are the Bachs and Beethovens of our generation. From an educational standpoint this series is a gift to our culture. I'm honored to be a featured part of it, but I'm more thrilled just to sit down and watch it with my grandkids." --Quincy Jones "Louis Armstrong's sound transcends time and style. This DVD captures that intangible power and allows us to gaze upon it in wonder." --Wynton Marsalis "Amazing! To see the Art Blakey band playing "Moanin'" a month after I recorded them--it's like watching my own birth." --Rudy Van Gelder (engineer of the original Moanin' LP) "These nine historic DVDs are among the most important visual/aural documents to be mined from the ever-yielding, seemingly hidden jazz treasury. Now, most importantly, they are available to the entire world." --Ira Gitler, co-author, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford) "Considering the almost alarming proliferation of jazz DVDs on the market today, and their extremely variable quality, it is good to know that Reelin' In The Years can be trusted to bring viewers nothing but the best--in content and presentation." --Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University; author, Living With Jazz (Pantheon Books) "The first nine releases hold many delights -- a magnificent Ella Fitzgerald, a crisp Quincy Jones big band -- but none more thrilling than a concert by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in Brussels in 1958." -New York Times many more at [...]
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Jazz Icons: Series 1 Box Set (9 DVDs)
by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie
Price:$159.99
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