Jazz Icons: Charles Mingus Live in '64

Jazz Icons: Charles Mingus Live in '64 Review

The immensely innovative Eric Dolphy was with Mingus again, playing alto sax, flute and bass clarinet, when these shows were filmed in Belgium, Norway and Sweden. Three months later; Dolphy was dead. This is one of Mingus's most exciting live bands, doing Meditations on Integration; So Long Eric; Peggy's Blue Skylight; Parkeriana , and more profoundly imaginative jazz.

Jazz Icons: Series 2 (Boxed Set)

Jazz Icons: Series 2 (Boxed Set) Review

Hours and hours of vintage live concerts by jazz's most revered singers, guitars, horn players, piano men, composers and more! The Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughan, Dave Brubeck and Dexter Gordon DVDs join an exclusive one with rare performances by Coltrane, Vaughan, Gordon and Brubeck.

Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65

Jazz Icons: John Coltrane Live in '60, '61 & '65 Review

Jazz Icons: John Coltrane provides an epic 95-minute overview of a true giant of 20th-century music. Three separate shows reveal Coltrane's ascending creative arc from hard bop innovator as a member of the Miles Davis Quartet in 1960 to consummate bandleader in 1961 to unrivalled jazz visionary in 1965. This DVD not only features Trane's classic quartet with Elvin Jones (drums), Jimmy Garrison (bass) and McCoy Tyner (piano), but also spotlights him onstage with other jazz legends including Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy and Oscar Peterson. Includes mind-blowing versions of his signature tunes "My Favorite Things" and "Impressions".

Jazz Icons: Duke Ellington Live in '58

Jazz Icons: Duke Ellington Live in '58 Review

Jazz Icons: Duke Ellington features the earliest-known filmed full-length concert by one of the 20th Century's greatest songwriters and bandleaders. Filmed at Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw, this 80-minute concert features the 16-piece Duke Ellington Orchestra two years after their stunning performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival,which Duke considered his second birth. This epic performance includes legendary players Clark Terry, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Paul Gonsalves, Quentin Jackson and Ray Nance performing some of the most beloved American music ever written.

Jazz Icons: Series 1 (Nine DVD Boxed Set)

Jazz Icons: Series 1 (Nine DVD Boxed Set) Review

JAZZ ICONS BOX SET - DVD Movie