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Jazz Giants of the 20th Century |  | Actors: Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie
Studio: Passport
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 21962
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: KCHDPIP1653D
UPC: 025493165395
EAN: 0025493165395
ASIN: B000JLQQ62
Release Date: January 16, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: E1 Entertainment Release Date: 01/16/2007 Run time: 60 minutes
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| Customer Reviews:
No production values; 50% good music, so not a complete misnomer August 28, 2010
Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States)
Understandably, this disc will scarcely rate 2 stars with most viewers. No arguments from me. But there are reasons to like it:
1. Charlie Parker, the inarguable master among all improvisers in this American art form, left a single (just one) film clip behind him (a several-minute television tape of Bird joining Dizzy Gillespie on "Hot House"). It's not included in this collection, but the point is that the public's, let alone the sponsors', traditional aversion to jazz (especially instrumental jazz) assures that, visually, there's little to no footage of the seminal giants available anywhere, so be grateful for what you can get.
2. Although much of the video will be of interest only to fans of "smooth jazz" (Herbie Mann, Grover Washington), there's enough solid musical material to compensate.
Highlights include:
1. Dizzy Gillespie fronting his 1948 "pure" bebop band for two entire numbers.
2. Earl Fatha Hines and Louis as well as Herbie Hancock and Chic Corea (on the Mike Douglas Show). Though filmed in 1979, 6 years after Chic's/Burton's "Crystal Silence," Herbie appears to be no more than 18. (At 60 he looked like a 35-year-old; at 70, the disparity has narrowed considerably).
3. A Nat King Cole television show featuring Nat with: A. Oscar Peterson and the contrasting approaches of Stan Getz and Coleman Hawkins; B. Nat's tribute to Nelson Riddle, including the filming of a complete orchestral arrangement conducted by Riddle as well as Nat's calling attention to and even naming each of Nelson's 4 copyists!
Great Jazz Lineup! January 29, 2007
Steves (Southern California, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a really cool assemblage of jazz artists. I've seen some of the early stuff before, but the color performances from Herbie Mann, Grover Washington and Lional Hampton were great, and I liked the bonus jazz discussion by those older musicians. Definitely worth the money.
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