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Release Details
Title: Improvisation: Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and More
Release Date: 09/04/2007 Label/Distributor: Eagle Vision Rating: Unrated Retail Price: $19.98 Genre: Jazz Cast: Norman Granz Running Time: 280 DVD Video Options: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video DVD Audio Options: English, Original Language UPC Code: 801213906093 In 1944 Norman Granz and Gjon Mili collaborated on a film about jazz music called "Jammin' The Blues". Highly successful, it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Short Film and is described on the IMDB as "Maybe the greatest film ever about jazz." In 1950 they collaborated again on a film about jazz improvisation that was never completed. This footage has now been combined with other film of jazz improvisation shot by Norman Granz at different times and locations to create this new film simply titled "Improvisation". Tracklisting: Mili's Studio Sequence 1950 1) Opening Title 2) Ballade 3) Celebrity 4) Ad Lib 5) Pennies From Heaven 6) Blues For Greasy Duke Ellington at the Cote D'Azur 7) Blues For Joan Miro Count Basie At Montreux Jazz Festival 1977 8) Nob's Blues 9) Kidney Stew 10) These Foolish Things Joe Pass 1979 11) Ain't Misbehavin' 12) Prelude To A Kiss Ella Fitzgerald 1979 13) Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 14) I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good Oscar Peterson At Montreux Jazz Festival 1977 15) Ali & Frazier Bonus Features Disc One: Portrait of Norman Granz narrated by Nat Hentoff / Portraits by David Stone Martin Disc Two: Extra rushes / Interviews about the Mili session / Interviews about Charlie Parker / Photo gallery of Paul Nodler's pictures of the Mili session / The original 1944 film "Jammin' The Blues" ADVERTISEMENT BUY THIS DVD NOW on Amazon.com |
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