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Summary: The Best Jazz DVDs EVER
Comment: The description on this Amazon page doesn't begin to do this set justice. This box set of eight DVDs contains all 28 episodes of the classic series "Jazz Casual" in both NTSC and PAL format. It runs a whopping 14 hours.
Disc One: John Coletrane Quartet / Sonny Rollins Quartet with Jim Hall / B.B. King Blues Band
Disc Two: Art Farmer Quartet with Jim Hall / Gerry Mulligan Quartet / Art Pepper Quartet
Disc Three: Charles Lloyd Quartet with Keith Jarrett / Paul Winter Sextet / Bola Sete & the Vince Guaraldi Trio / Turk Murphy & the San Francisco Jazz Band
Disc Four: Woody Herman and his Swingin' Herd featuring Sal Nistico, Nat Pierce & Jake Hanna
Disc Five: Modern Jazz Quartet / Dave Brubeck Quartet / Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra
Disc Six: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Julian "Cannonball" Adderly Quintet / Mugsy Spanier Sextet / Joe Sullivan
Disc Seven: Mel Torme Quartet / Jimmy Witherspoon with Ben Webster / Carmen McRae Quartet / Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan featuring Ponny Poindexter
Disc Eight: Count Basie Quartet / Earl "Fatha" Hines Trio / Jimmy Rushing / Louis Armstrong
Worth every penny and then some.
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Summary: You need this set
Comment: Ralph Gleason's 1960s Jazz Casual series was one of the high points of televised jazz. The San Francisco jazz writer and Rolling Stone magazine paterfamilias presented the best jazz musicians across a range of styles in a respectful, relaxed setting, and spent a few minutes of almost every show conversing intelligently with his guest star.
And what fantastic musicians. In this set you can hear and see, at length, John Coltrane (no interview with Coltrane, unfortunately) and his great quartet with Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner; Sonny Rollins and his quartet with Jim Hall; the blues singer Jimmy Rushing talking, singing and accompanying himself on piano; Dizzy Gillespie; Count Basie in a very relaxed piano set; the great traditional cornetist Muggsy Spanier with a group including bassist Pops Foster and Chicago pianist Joe Sullivan; an entire set of Joe Sullivan playing solo piano; the Woody Herman Big Band; altoist Art Pepper; blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon with an accompanying group including Ben Webster; and lots more.
If you are a jazz fan, you need this. At this price it makes sense to buy the entire package rather than getting the individually packaged episodes. Really impossible to recommend highly enough.
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