Jazz Icons III Box Set (DVD)

• Category:  Video  »  Music & Musicals  »  Music & Musicals, General
• Format: DVD   Learn more about the DVD format using Tower WIKI.
• Region: Region 0 (Can be played worlwide.)  Learn more about Region formats.
  
• Number of Discs: 8
• UPC/EAN: 747313800247
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112346688
• Studio: Naxos
• Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Average Customer Review: There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #14313 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
• #1038 in Music & Musicals (See Top 100 Music & Musicals Bestsellers)
• #72 in Music & Musicals, General (See Top 100 Music & Musicals, General Bestsellers)

Browse more products related to "Jazz Icons III Box Set"

Browse more products related to "Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans"

DVD Features:

Region 0
8-Disc Box Set
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Mono - English, Natural Sound/Music
Additional Product:
Collectible - 24-page Booklet

Disc 1: SONNY ROLLINS - LIVE IN '65 & '68
Disc 2: CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - LIVE IN '63
Disc 3: BILL EVANS - LIVE IN '64-'75
Disc 4: RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK - LIVE IN '63 & '67
Disc 5: LIONEL HAMPTON - LIVE IN '58
Disc 6: OSCAR PETERSON - LIVE IN '63, '64 & '65
Disc 7: NINA SIMONE - LIVE IN '65 & '68
Disc 8: BONUS DISC

With their first two batches, the Jazz Icons label set the standard for DVD issues of vintage jazz concerts. Back in the '50s and '60s, US television networks studiously avoided presenting any black art for fear of offending their Southern audiences. However when these artists toured Europe they were frequently feted with their own television shows. Jazz Icons began scouring for the original tapes of these programs and has been restoring the audio and video quality. Additionally, they're handsomely packaged, containing 20-30 page booklets with informed essays and commentary about artists and the individual broadcasts.

Jazz Icon's third series contains a number of gems. They include Sonny Rollins (Live in '65 & '68), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (Live in '63 & '67), Cannonball Adderley (two 1963 programs), Bill Evans (five programs spanning 1964-1975) and Nina Simone (Live in '65 & '68). Additionally, if purchased as a boxed set, there is an otherwise unavailable bonus disc with two further Rollins broadcasts (Sweden/ Holland 1959), another Kirk concert from Belgium and a Swedish Nina Simone program.

There are plenty of highlights. Simone delivers incendiary readings of Four Women and Ballad Of Hollis Brown from a 1965 Dutch show. (You wouldn't have seen those on US TV.) The Rollins 1968 Danish broadcast is particularly valuable since this was a period (1967-72) when Rollins wasn't recording and he delivers a particularly stellar On Green Dolphin Street with lengthy unaccompanied interludes. The full 71-minute show from 1963 by the Cannonball Adderley Sextet has never been shown since its initial broadcast and had to be compiled from several sources. Any jazz fan that receives this as a present may start believing in Santa Claus.

There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!

• Great Deals on CDs under $9.99

  New Releases, Bestsellers and Classic Albums all for under $10! Great Music for Everyone's Tastes!

• Great Deals on DVDs under $12.99

  New Releases, Bestsellers and Classic DVDs all for under $13! Great Movies, TV and DVD Specials for Everyone's Tastes!

• Great Deals on Books under $14.99

  New Releases, Bestsellers and Classic Books all for under $15! Great Reads for Everyone's Tastes!