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| ACTORS: | John Coltrane |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| MANUFACTURER: | Wea/Atlantic/Rhino |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | NTSC, Black & White, Box set |
| TYPE: | Music Video - Jazz |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 3 |
| UPC: | 081227262235 |
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Customer Reviews of Jazz Casual, Vol. 1 (Count Basie, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie)
Worth it if you're listening. I'm a working jazz pianist in the Seattle area and always looking to get closer to Basie's perspective. If you've got ears and want to see these guys in action, get this disk. Granted, there are some short interviews, but it's a small price to pay to see a slice of the minimal good footage available from these long gone times in jazz history. A player's textbook in black and white!
Take the intrerview out!!!
...The music is really great. Coltrane is so awesome that his music magnetizes, you can't even put it at the background: it takes all your attention.
Now the problem is that the interview is very poor... I think that even with talented interviewer the musical DVD should have the option to skip the dialogs and to choose to play the music only. It is also strange that the sound recording not as good as it supposed to be and the video picture is sometimes very dirty. Don't buy this DVD.
Somebody needs to remake this DVD and make some cleaning of it.
Worth it for the historical value alone
I found this worth the cost to me but mostly for the historical view. The music can be heard on a CD much better and quite honestly I didn't hear a lot being said by Basie or Gillespie (Coltrane declined to be interviewed).
But what a treat to see the footage of a Public TV Broadcast of the 60's. Gleason's questions and attempt at dialog sounds very dated. Of course it was not atypical of the era but by today's standards he sounds amaturish and unprepared. But thankfully he did do these shows and we now get to see things in the exact setting of the era when they were done. I probably won't watch this all that often but I will pull it out now and again.