Claude Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 The franco-german TV station ARTE shows a 45 minute film next sunday 7 August at 7PM, which puts together live or TV studio recordings made in Germany in the 50s and 60s. The list of artists can be seen in the descriptive text below (in french). It includes Miles' second quintet. Dimanche 7 août 2005 à 19h00 Miles Davis and more Miles Davis and more réunit toutes les légendes du jazz, de Louis Armstrong à Thelonious Monk en passant par Miles Davis et Duke Ellington. Réalisation : Gerold Hofmann (Allemagne, 2005, 43mn) Production : Eikon Südwest GmbH ARTE/SWR Au milieu des années 50, le producteur allemand Joachim-Ernst Berendt a organisé des enregistrements des grands noms du jazz, en studio ou en concert, pour son émission télévisée « Gehört und Gesehen ». Puisant dans ces riches archives, Miles Davis and more nous offre 45 minutes de magie pure : Louis Armstrong fredonne C’est si bon, Duke Ellington dirige le classique Take a train, Thelonious Monk joue Round midnight, Dave Brubeck et Paul Desmond plongent dans les circonvolutions de Take five. Au programme également : les prestations de Baden Powe l l , Carmen McRae, Cannonball Adderley et, bien entendu, Miles Davis, qui joue avec Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter et Tony William – un quintette dont chaque membre est devenu depuis une star du jazz. http://www.arte-tv.com/fr/art-musique/Un_2...RTE/935516.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Thanks Claude! I'll have to buy some video tapes... (have only entered DVD-age as far as computers are concerned...) How I'd wish someone would occasionally put some of those shows on their schedule in complete form! I've seen only one of them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 %$$$$$$$ !! Once again I am livid for them removing this fine channel from my old analog satellite service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Thanks for the reminder, Claude! Would have hated to miss this. Will take a look at it from my current residence which is equiped with a black/white TV set which will fit right in. Trust that ARTE will have a rerun of the program in time to videotape it after I get back home next week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosco Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 %$$$$$$$ !! Once again I am livid for them removing this fine channel from my old analog satellite service. ← Ditto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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brownie Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 What a strange compilation this turned out to be! The Armstrong ('C'Est Si Bon!) and the Ellington ('Take the A Train') segments were the GoodYear shorts which have been seen hundreds of times before. The rest was taken from the Berendt TV shows. This included: - the Thelonious Monk Quartet (without Charlie Rouse) playing 'Round Midnight'. Great intro shot showing Monk's feet dancing around the piano pedals... - Baden Powell (with Steve Swallow and ? - was that Bobby Moses?) playing 'Samba Triste', - the Miles Davis Quintet (with Shorter, Hancock, Carter and Tony Williams) playing a medley improvisation - tunes from 'ESP' - which was roughly edited so that Miles was heard briefly and Shorter was left out! But Miles looked magnificient in his striped Italian suit! - the Dave Brubeck Quartet (with Desmond, Wright, Morello) playing - what else... - 'Take Five', - Carmen McRae (with the non-announced Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland big band in 'I Wish I Were In Love Again'. Too short but so nice to see Benny Bailey, Idrees Sulieman, Ake Persson, Klook among the musicians - Albert Mangelsdorf's group playing 'Now Jazz Rawmong', - George Lewis and NO veterans playing 'Mahoganny Hall Stomp' and the Cannonball Adderley Sextet (with Nat, Yusef Lateef, Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes) swinging thru the 'Jive Samba'. With Arte will air soon non-edited shows of some of those broadcasts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted August 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Thanks Brownie. This german production, subtitled "The ideal concert" , was a mixed bag indeed. Especially the edited Miles track was strange. My favourite part was Mangelsdorff, although Brubeck, Monk and Cannonball were great too, but I had already seen that video footage before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 I think this program did not live up to the standard set by ARTE in the past. Whoever edited this thing (some German dudes) must have smoked a load of crack before reluctantly getting the job done. Jazz fans just seem to be happy about anything that shows their favorite music, just because not much can be had on TV. I wonder what fans of other music would say if parts of songs were edited out and the program sequencing appeared utterly mindless. Disappointing to the max for me and more or less a waste of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 (edited) I enjoyed it a lot... sure, the Miles cut was waaaaay too short, and that *was* disappointing. Sure, the musicians were not announced and all, and that is not great, and sure, the sequencing was weird to say the least (when George Lewis - whom I love! - turned up I thought they had sort of interrupted the whole thing... it just didn't fit in, neither stylistically, nor image quality, nor mood wise). The highlight for me was Paul Desmond's solo (but Brubeck was boring) - so simple, so easy-sounding, yet, WHOAH! That man was soooooooo good! Sophistication at work! And of course the Cannonball band was fun to watch, too, but Cannon's solo - somewhat similar to Desmond's in that it started as loose and unconnected phrases (but he started inserting his trademark 16th-runs almost from the beginnign) was not working for me... just slack. (I must add that I never liked any version of "Jive Samba" that I have heard - Zawinul was weak as well, Jones was too low in the mix, Nat was merely ok, Lateef was the best...) Harsh criticism, I know, but I love that sextet so much (the finally - but now cactusicalistically - reissued "In Europe" being one of my alltime Cannon favourites, together with "Nippon Soul"). Oh, and Ray Nance was *sweet*! I never saw this before, so I enjoyed it immensely - even if Duke was aping almost as much as that kiddo boogie boy on that Basie telescription. Pretty embarassing... Satchmo was much more natural, while Duke was having a distorted grin on his face... I guess I prefer the Miles-approach to showbiz. Mangelsdorff was good to see, for sure -but was that cut edited as well? Why were there no really wild solos, why no tenor? Why did they mix the bass so low there again? (Or is that just the old tv I watched it on?) Edited August 8, 2005 by king ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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