Jazz+icons

John Coltrane - Live in '60, '61 & '65 (2007) [DVD9] {Jazz Icons Series}
DVD9 -> 5.14 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 4:3 | English (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | ~ 01:37 | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 14 Mb | 5% WinRAR Recovery
© 2007 Naxos / Reelin' In The Years Pro. / Jazz Icons | 2119007
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone

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".

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Live In '58 (2006) [DVD5] {Jazz Icons}
DVD5 -> 3.79 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 4:3 | English (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 54:13 | ISO Image
© 2006 TDK / Jazz Icons
Jazz / Hard Bop

Jazz Icons: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers features what many consider to be one of the finest line-ups in the history of jazz—Art Blakey (Drums), Bobby Timmons (Piano), Jymie Merritt (Bass), Benny Golson (Sax) and the legendary trumpet player, Lee Morgan. Lost for nearly 50 years, this historic 55-minute concert, filmed in Belgium in 1958, one month to the day after they recorded their masterpiece Moanin', is the only known visual document of this influential band who were together for only six months.

The opportunity to see the “Father” of the tenor sax, Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969), on video is a rare one. During Hawkins’ prime – in the 30s to 50s – there is very little video archived of viewable quality, so it is a special treat to have 140 minutes of the master playing at the end of his career. Hawkins had begun to deteriorate rapidly at the end of his career beginning in 1967, when he largely stopped eating and began to drink even more heavily. He was a wisp of his formerly robust stature in 1969 when he passed away. The jazz world had changed, as free jazz had begun to creep onto the jazz scene, and although Hawkins had survived and even mastered the bop idiom of the late 40s and early 50s, he had a hard time accepting some of the directions that jazz was heading.