Masters of American Music: The World According to John Coltrane [EuroArts]
02.05.12
Roscoe Mitchell, Rashied Ali, Alice Coltrane, Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Heath, Wayne Shorter and many more This DVD will be released in March 2010 in a Limited Edition in special packaging! Innovative, influential and strongly revered, John Coltrane was the most revolutionary and widely imitated saxophonist in jazz. With previously unseen footage, The World According to John Coltrane celebrates this extraordinary and passionate musician who strove with relentless curiosity for a musical ideal and cultivated an almost saintly reputation among listeners and fellow musicians. The film includes extensive performance footage and culminates in a fascinating musical meeting between the Art Ensemble of Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and dervish musicians in Moroccos Sahara desert in 1990. Masters of American Music is an award-winning television series as entertaining as it is educational and memorable that celebrate a pantheon of the greatest innovators in Jazz. Individual programmes trace the lives and works of master musicians who defined the course of Americas classical music. From its birth in New Orleans, to swing, the big bands, bebop, free Jazz and beyond all of it is explored with sensitivity and in unique depth. Over 80 interviews were filmed in the making of the series. Featured artists come to life through these interviews, exciting rare performances, period footage and vintage photographs meticulously reproduced. Both the video and audio content has been restored and …
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