Jazz Icon DVDs....GET THEM NOW!

[Soul Stream]

Picked up a handful of the Jazz Icon DVDs that came out today. Holy Cow.

Dizzy and Stitt singing "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" together with pure joy. (Sonny's KILLING on this...plays all but one song on Tenor!)

Chet Baker....some of the best stuff ever on film. Him singing Time After Time as well as anything he ever cut in his early years...blowing his heart out with cool melodicism. The interview and playing in 79 is VERY good stuff.

Just checking the Blakey right now...he makes an announcement and seems half-baked...band is killin'.

[Claude]

Interesting stuff, especially the Blakey and the Chet

http://www.jazzicons.com

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=10521

[Soul Stream]

Yeah, this stuff is mind blowing.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

organissimno link - CDUniverse seems to have the best price.

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[Claude]

organissimno link - CDUniverse seems to have the best price.

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Sorry, but your link does not contain the Organissimo referrer (&frm=lk_organissimo). That has to added manually when you copy the the adress from your browser.

Here's the complete link:

http://www.cduniverse.com/sresult.asp?HT_S...=lk_organissimo

Edited September 27, 2006 by Claude

[Man with the Golden Arm]

i did not realize that. i thought that if i searched from the box atop the page and pasted the url here that it linked automatically. oh well, looks like the 'O' missed a few cents from me.

[Claude]

oh well, looks like the 'O' missed a few cents from me.

Be reassured Your purchase will benefit Organissimo, because you used the search box on this page and therefore the Org referrer.

It's just the link you posted above that does not contain the referrer, so other member's purchases, when made through the link, would not have generated revenue for Org. That's what I corrected with my link.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

phewww. thanks Claude!

[Eric]

Got the Blakey - have not had a chance to view it yet. But - as noted above - the production appears to be first rate. Lots of photos, notes by Cuscuna, etc.

[CJ Shearn]

maybe I'll grab the Blakey when I get the new PMG DVD soon.

[Claude]

BTW, the first half of the Monk DVD is the same performance as on the bonus DVD of the Monk In Paris: Live At The Olympia CD, but without the 1990's french TV logo in the corner of the screen

Edited September 29, 2006 by Claude

[Soul Stream]

BTW, the first half of the Monk DVD is the same performance as on the bonus DVD of the Monk In Paris: Live At The Olympia CD, but without the 1990's french TV logo in the corner of the screen

Yeah, I was a bit disappointed to find that out as I already had it. Although, I ain't complaining...

[tatifan]

Got the Blakey at Borders yesterday (they STILL hadn't put it into stock....waited 15 mins. for them to look in the stock room!). It's really something....the sound is much better than I was expecting, damned good, in fact, capturing a roundness of tone often missing from studio recordings of the time. The video quality is just a tad grainy, but the detail is there. The packaging and booklet are first rate.

Moanin' is certainly a highlight, and Timmons is cookin' throughout. But Morgan and Golson are just on fire! I'm not ordinarily a fan of the type of "let's-throw-in-the-kitchen-sink" solo that Golson gives us at the end of "A Night in Tunisia", but it works like a charm here! An interesting detail: Timmons is playing a Bluthner piano, which were (are?) big in the former Soviet Union (I played one there once, and loved it) and Eastern Europe, but not SO much elsewhere....it's a tiny bit out of tune, but it's a really interesting (and beautiful) piano sound. Blakey's first spoken intro is from outer space! He seems to have been told not to plug Blue Note Records specifically, but he ends up doing so anyhow, after making a meal of whatever he's trying to say! He's having fun, at least! Anyhow, I'm ready to spin this disc again today!

I guess it's on to the Gillespie and Monk for me....maybe Armstrong & Baker. Not a bad deal at Borders with the 25% coupon from this week ($14.98).

Edited October 1, 2006 by tatifan

[Claude]

I received the Chet and the Blakey DVD yesterday, and I'm very impressed by the picture and sound quality of these 1950's and 1960's recordings (the Chet disc also has a 1979 session, in color).

The picture is state of the art for that period, better than on most jazz DVDs with "historic" TV material. The sound (mono of course) is simply perfect, as good as on the best european radio broadcast productions available on CD. I always thought the sound of TV productions was necessarily worse because of tape limitations, but this isn't the case here. The sound balance is also very good, and the camerawork mostly static, showing the whole band and then zooming onto the soloists.

I can't add anything to tatifan's comments above about the musical qualities of the Blakey disc.

From the two discs I've seen, I think these is an indispensible documentation of the musicians, and highly enjoyable.

Edited October 14, 2006 by Claude

[Larry Kart]

Rather lengthy review of the Jazz Icons in post #5 on this thread:

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry563625